Swallow Love - Mittens Knitting Pattern

The swallows represents love, care and affection towards family and friends, showing the loyalty of the person always returning to them. The swallows also represent everlasting love and are associated with loyalty and fidelity. This birds choose a mate for life, and will only nest with that bird and no other.
Swallows are also the symbol of coming home. Swallows return to the same place every year to mate and nest and they always follow the same migration pattern.

The mittens are mirror images of each other and therefore #OCDproof

Yarn
Fingering weight wool or wool blend, for example Garnstudio: Drops Fabel, 205 m (224 yard) / 50 grams.
Main Color (MC): 2 skeins (100 grams) of white
Contrast Color (CC): 1 skein (50 grams) of black

Needles
A set of dpn’s or circulars for magic loop size
2.75 (US2) or to obtain gauge

Gauge
34 sts over 36 rows = 10 cm (4 inch) knitted in the
round after wet blocking.

Notions
Waste yarn that is not the same color as your working yarns.
Darning needle

Size
Women medium
Palm circumference: 21.2 cm (8.25 inch)
Thumb placement from the tip of your middle finger: 14 cm (5.5 inch) [11 cm (4.5 inch)]

Alterations
For a size small go down a needle size and for size
large go up a needle size.

Abbreviations
CC = Contrast Color
CO = Cast on
Cont = Continue
DPN’s = Double Pointed Needles
K = Knit
LH = Left Hand
MC = Main Color
P = Purl
Rep = Repeat
Rnd(s) = Round(s)
Sl = Slip
St(s) = Stitch(es)

This pattern is test knitted.