I'd like to share it here, with you, so that you too can show your house colours, and as soon as I get a minute, we'll be unveiling the Stitchcraft & Scissory house colours too!
Oh, and next lesson? We'll be having our first cookery lesson from Lady Boss, healthy and wholesome and straight from the Store Cupboard.
Totally Wizard Mittens
Yarn
Paintbox
Yarns Simply Aran (Aran; 100% acrylic; 100g x 184m) A – 60g and B – 40g
Griffyndor:
A – Red Wine (251) and B – Mustard Yellow (223)
Ravenclaw: A
– Midnight Blue (237) and B – Stormy Grey (204)
Hufflepuff:
A – Pure Black (201) and B –
Mustard Yellow (223)
Slytherin: A
– Racing Green (227) and B – Stormy Grey (204)
Hook
5mm
Abbreviations
Ch – chain
Ss – slip
stitch
Htr – half
treble crochet
Flo – work
in the front loop only
Exdc –
Extended Double Crochet
Ss – slip
stitch
Exdc2tog –
work two extended double crochet stitches together
Size
To fit
average, adult, female hand.
Notes
You make the
cuff first, using rows of htr stitch that will give your cuff a knitted, rib
effect. You then work around the
top of it to create the rest of your mitten. When you work in htr’s you get a hidden, 3rd
loop or ‘hump’ stitch– if you’re
looking down on the top of your stitches, and roll your work toward you, you’ll
see it. Working in this loop gives
you a knitted, stocking style stitch.
Don’t be
scared of an extended double crochet!
Once you learn it, you’ll want to use it for everything. It’s
basically a slightly longer double crochet; it gives more height than a dc,
isn’t as gappy as a treble and uses less yarn to give you a lighter material.
To work an exdc: insert hook into
stitch (just like a dc), yarn over and draw a loop through, yarn over and then
pull through the first loop on hook only, yarn over and pull through the last
loops on your hook. That’s it! Easy! Oh, and make two mittens ;)
To make the cuff
(Ch1 at
start of each row does not count as stitch)
Using Yarn A
and a 5mm hook, ch 11
Row 1: htr
in 2nd stitch from hook, htr in each st to end (10)
Row 2: ch1,
htr in first hump stitch, htr in each hump stitch to end (10)
Row 3: ch1,
turn, htr in flo to end (10)
Rows 4-17:
Rpt rows 2-3, fasten off to finish
Sew short
sides together and crochet along top and bottom edges working a dc in each ‘v’
shaped stitch and another between every other one – (this isn’t an exact
science you just need to finish with a total of 25 stitches on each side.)
To make the rest of the mitten
(Ch2 counts
as stitch throughout)
Rnd 1: Join
on to a dc stitch of cuff with yarn A , exdc in each st, ss
Rnd 2-3:
ch2, Yarn B, exdc in each st, ss
(25)
Rnd 4: ch2,
2exdc, exdc in each st to end, ss
(26)
Rnd 5 : ch2,
exdc in each st, ss (26)
Rnd 6: rpt
rnd 4 (27)
Rnd 7: Yarn
A, rpt rnd 5 (27)
Rnd 8-9: rpt
rnds 4 & 5 (28)
Rnd 10: rpt
rnd 4 (29)
Rnd 11: rpt
rnd 4, fasten off (30)
To create a
thumb hole, count 4 stitches to right of where you fastened off, join on with
Yarn A, ch1, sk8, ss into next st
Rnd 12: ch2,
exdc in each st, exdc in ch1, ss
(23)
Rnd 13-18:
Yarn B, ch2, exdc in each st, ss
(23)
Rnd 19-23:
Yarn A, ch2, exdc in each st, ss
(23)
Rnd 24: ch2,
exdc2tog, exdc next 11 st’s, exdc2tog, exdc to end, ss (21)
Rnd 25: ch2,
exdc2tog to end of rnd, ss (11)
Rnd 26: ch2,
exdc2tog to end of rnd, ss and fasten off
(5)
To work the thumb
Join on with Yarn A in any stitch at thumb hole
Rnd 1: ch2,
exdc in each st, 2exdc in ch1 from Rnd 11, ss (10)
Rnd 2- 6:
Yarn B, ch2, exdc in each (10)
Rnd 7:
exdc2tog, fasten off.
Weave in all
ends and get terribly excited about wearing those house colours.
And just in case you were wondering? Ravenclaw ;)
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