Cheers! Mitts

Cheers! is a pair of fingerless mitts knitted in the round. It was part of one of four patterns first published as a Colour to Knit Club then in the eBook KNITSONIK & Friends: Colour to Knit, which focus on enabling you to choose your own colourway with fun and useful process!

For the Cheers! mitts the goal is to pair a skein of variegated yarn with four matching solid shades, emphasising your favourite shades in the variegated yarn. Choosing your solid shades enables you to more deeply appreciate the work of the dyer, while also adding your own twist to their colourway.

Stranded colourwork is combined with knit-and-purl stitches to create asymmetric textured triangles on a variegated background. This fabric creates an illusion of diagonal spirals representing the fluidity and colours of a drink.

Cheers! is published with inspiring notes and printable worksheets to colour-in as an aid to deciding which yarn shades to use. The creative process behind the design is offered alongside the pattern instructions to enable and encourage you to adapt this design for mixing your own yarny cocktails, should you so wish. If you have never used variegated yarn for stranded colourwork, Cheers! offers a really inviting and accessible starting point.

This pattern contains a toolbox full of things like:

• The introduction of the Ebook written by Felix of KNITSONIK to provide context.

• Three sizes and THREE different colourways using the work of amazing dyers : Bluebell Yarns,  Riverknits and Rusty Ferret Yarn.

• Printable colouring-in templates to aid you in recolouring the design.

• A Yarn Mixology Photo Tutorial showing how colouring-in was used to aid the design process for the samples shown in the eBook

• An In-Depth interview with Becci of RiverKnits on colours, dyeing process and their amazing wall of minis!

• Long-hand written instructions as well as Black and White and coloured charted instructions. This pattern also uses the Dyslexie Font developed to make reading easier for people with Dyslexia.

If you want to go further into the world of colourwork and discover the three other patterns from Patricia Kimmitt, Felicity (Felix) Ford and Beverley Dott, a coupon code is provided to get off the price of this pattern when buying the full KNITSONIK & Friends: Colour to Knit Ebook.

Credits where credit is due:

Book Concept, Design, Editing, Illustration and Production: Felicity (Felix) Ford, KNITSONIK Limited.

Technical Editing: Frauke Urban

Photos: Fergus Ford of Fergus Ford photography

Models: Heidi, Taia and James

Makeup and artistic direction: Felicity (Felix) Ford KNITSONIK LTD.

Knitwear design: Nolwenn Pensivy - Two Left Feet Designs

Colourway and yarn:

Pink Lemonade: Rusty Ferret Masham in Lana Obscura, Jamieson and Smith 2ply Jumperweight in 101, 53, 66 and 23.

Blue Lagoon: Bluebell Yarns Bluefaced Leicester in Wisteria, Jamieson and Smith 2ply Jumperweight in FC9, FC47, 75 and FC34.

Mulled Wine: Riverknits Nene 4ply in My Heart Bleeds Wine,  Riverknits Nene 4ply Minis in Brilliant Gold,  Brilliant Tomato, Jewel Violet and Jewel Indigo.