Scrap Happy Mittens
Britania
A ball of yarn saved from the scrap heap – hurrah. This yarn has been discontinued, but it’s colour name is Brombeere, which means blackberry in German…
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Drat
…whoops! Who knew that moths like to nibble blackberries…
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snip
…quite a bit of scrap-splicing was needed…
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Good as new
…but the splices don’t show, and knit up perfectly fine.
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Translation
I am using the Stockholm fingerless mitten pattern again, which I used in the November Knitting blog post of a few days ago. It isn’t available in English so I translated it to the best of my ability… some things didn’t look quite right in the first pair…
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Right glove
…so I changed the pattern a bit, for the second pair, now the right glove doesn’t end up with a channel of purl stitches separating the thumb…The channel appears when you do the additional cables starting with a purl stitch instead of a knit stitch when using the pattern as writ…(or at least as translated by me).
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Purl Knit Knit
The left mitten is knit as Knit,Knit,Purl, so the new rib comes off of a knit stitch. If you just adjust the rib on the right one to Purl, Knit, Knit you will end up with the same effect – no channel! Yay!!
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thumbless
…Here is the right Blackberry mitten finished (aside from the thumb which is put in last)…
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Italian sewn bind off
… binding off the thumb…
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Thumbed
…and here is the right mitten completed and drying on the glove stretchers…
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Thrums
…there isn’t much blackberry yarn left!
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ScrapHappy is a group of bloggers (links below) who post monthly about using up scraps! All genuine scraps are allowed, and any material. Blog posts are published on the 15th of the month – I really love to see what people are doing with bits and pieces saved from the scrap heaps! If you think you’d like to join the group, contact Kate who devised it with a Swedish friend – her blog is the first link below:
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Quimper Hittys 
That is such a good way to use up an odd ball of wool. Finding a break where the moths have nibbled is so annoying!
We are loving this pattern. Yes, those pestiferous moths!!! Luckily the wool is actually all wool so easily spliced.
Knitting, I love too, the colour amazing, last year I knitted some of them, I mean mittens. You know dear Hitty Lady I always being so happy in here… Thank you, have a nice day and new week, Much Love, nia
Thank you so much, nia. We love to make these mittens, and the weather is getting cooler so they are much appreciated now!
I like that color and the name….Brombeere….has a nice feel in the mouth. I am imagining a doll with that name…perhaps a small elfin creature…… you are so talented. great mittens!
It’s a great name – related to the English word “Bramble”. I wonder if that forest troll-person’s name is Bramble?!
You are much more patient than I am – I just cut out the damage and continue knitting , knitting in the joined ends as I go. And I have a beautiful ball of handspun waiting to be used – pesky little moths! Love your little thrums fella. That seems to be a very useful mitten pattern, they look comfy.
It is a great mitten pattern! If you have some handspun that needs making int mittens I can happily either share the pattern or knit you a pair!
I’ve never seen a glove stretcher – neat device! Nice save on the scrappy yarn which is a beautiful color!
blocking always makes such a difference to knitting…I was lucky to find these glove stretchers in and antique store. I gave them to my son as he is a much more prolific knitter than I am, but have ended up borrowing them back quite frequently!