Knitting • £5 • Well in Hand
Designed to use exactly two mini skeins of Highland 4-ply, Midas is a thick, warm mitt that will keep you interested as you knit them and warm as you wear them. Featuring simple colourwork motifs, it’s suitable for confident beginners to stranded knitting.
• fingering weight
• written instructions
• charted instructions
• worked in the round
• accessible (low vision / screen reader compatible version)
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Materials
• 92 yards (84 meters) fingering weight yarn, in each of 2 colours (184 yards / 168 meters total)
• 2mm needles (or size needed for gauge), suitable for working in the round using your preferred method
• 3 stitch markers, 1 of which you can tell apart from the others
• your preferred blocking equipment
Sizing
Midas comes in three sizes: Small, Medium, and Large, and is designed to be worn with around 1″ / 2.5cm negative ease.
Small: 6″ tall by 5.1″ diameter (15cm tall by 12.6cm diameter) to fit hands up to 6.1″ (15.5cm) at knuckle / wrist.
Medium: 6″ tall by 5.9″ diameter (15cm tall by 12.7cm diameter) to fit hands up to 6.9″ (17.5cm) at knuckle / wrist, with an option to work an additional repeat to extend the length to 7″ / 18cm (see page 3).
Large: 7″ tall by 6.7″ diameter (18cm tall by 17cm diameter) to fit hands up to 7.7″ (19.6cm) at knuckle / wrist.
