Anorthosite Fingerless Mitts

About this design: These fingerless mitts are another piece inspired by the rocks on display at the Geo Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. The piece of Anorthosite (used in the process of making aluminum and fiberglass) was mined in Ten Mile Bay in northern Labrador and was still in its rough-cut block form, looking as it did when shipped from the quarry. It was these mining marks that inspired these fingerless mitts. The colours were chosen to reflect the different colours present in the Anorthosite.


Skills Required:

• Working with charts
• Slipped stitches
• Blocking

Finished Size: Small (Large)
Fits hand circumference (measured at knuckles, worn with 0” ease): 6.25 (7.5)”/18 (19) cm
Length: 6.25 (6.75)”/16 (17.25) cm


Other Tools:

• Stitch marker (3)
• Glow line tape (to mark current row on charts/instructions).
• Scrap yarn in contrasting colour
• Blunt tip tapestry needle to weave in ends.

Yarn: 140 (160) yards/128 (146) meters of wool DK weight yarn that knits up to 5 sts/inch.

MC: 100 (110) yards/91 (101) meters;
CC: 40 (50) yards/37 (46) meters

Shown In: Bare Naked Wools ‘Kent DK’, (300 yards/274 meters; 60% Merino wool, 40% Romney wool; 4.0 oz/115 grams per skein). MC – Beach Glass, CC – White Sand

Note: This pattern is also available in the Northern Landscapes, part 2 ebook.