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Samoom (Mittens)

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Can you imagine a wind so hot and dry that it is called poison? In this mitten design, offset cables mimic sand moved by the wind. The cuff has Arabic lettering for the word Samoom stranded as a Middle Eastern flavored variation on Fair Isle.

Yarn Required: approximately 170 (200, 255) yards / 155 (185, 235) meters sport weight yarn in Main Color (MC)

60 (75, 90) yards / 55 (70, 85) meters sport weight yarn in Contrast Color (CC)

Finished Measurements: approximately 7.5 (8, 9.25) inches / 18.5 (20, 23) cm finished circumference around hand

Skills Required: Casting on provisionally, knitting in the round, increasing and decreasing, cabling, chart reading, stranded knitting, picking up stitches, duplicate stitch.

Yarn weight: Sport (12 wpi) 

Gauge: 28 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches in Stranded Chart B on larger needles, blocked

Needle size: US 2½ - 3.0 mm

US 3 - 3.25 mm

Sizes available: Child's Large/Women's Small (Women's Medium/Men's Small, Women's Large/Men's Medium)

Languages: English

Pattern instructions are written, but colorwork patterns are given in chart form only.
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