Custom mittens
High five in style: greet your friends with easy-to-customize mittens
Give plain mittens a fresh twist by embroidering a snappy message using the duplicate stitch technique. You can practice on a sample swatch first.
High-five mittens—materials:
- A pair of ready-made solid-color mittens
- Wool yarn in two colors (for example, Drops Karisma, 100% wool, 50 g (approx. 1.8 oz) = 100 m (approx. 110 yd), shade 16 gray and shade 18 red)
- Blunt-tipped darning needle
High-five mittens—instructions:
- First, sketch the letters and the number on graph paper, with each square representing one stitch. The height and width of the letters and number depend on the thickness of the mitten yarn. In the mittens shown, the letters and the number measure 16 rows tall and 2 stitches wide—except for the curved parts of the number five, which measure 3 stitches wide.
- Choose yarn for duplicate stitching that is the same thickness or slightly thicker than the mitten yarn, ensuring it covers the base color better. It can help to mark your design’s placement on the mittens with stitch markers.
- Then follow your sketch and duplicate stitch the design onto your mittens. You can work the letters and number from bottom to top or top to bottom, one row at a time.
- Finally, weave in the yarn ends on the wrong side.
Tip!
The text HI goes on the right-hand mitten, and the number 5 goes on the left-hand mitten.
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