Mitten 17

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Hello and thank you so much for all your kind responses to last week’s scarf! It’s good to be among people who like and value the same sort of things. I’m only popping in briefly today, with a short post about a small hat inspired by a wee mitten.

Around this time last year, I was knitting 24 Norwegian Advent calendar mittens. This year, I filled them with tiny gifts, pinned them onto a wreath and gave them away. I was a bit sad to part with them, but know they’ve gone to a good home.

Besides, I’ve still got the pattern and am just as happy with that, because it provides a lot of inspiration. Both the fronts and the backs of the mittens have 2-colour patterns that can be used in all kinds of other projects. Take mitten 17:

Multiplying the pattern horizontally and working one repeat vertically, I used it to knit a new hat for our grandson.

I’d asked his mother about the colour, and she said, ‘fox brown would be nice’. So fox brown it is. Or oak leaf brown.

Oak leaves look so beautiful on misty, frosty days, outlined in white.

A few weeks ago, someone contacted me on Ravelry about the Advent calender mittens. She couldn’t get the pattern downloaded. I tried it out too and, nope, the link wasn’t working. Trying it out again today, I didn’t have any problems downloading it at all! The internet works in mysterious ways.

The Norwegian Julevotter Adventscalendar can be found here on Ravelry. And here is a direct link to the pattern pdf. If you’d like to download it and it isn’t working, trying again another day may be worthwhile. Good luck!

8 thoughts on “Mitten 17”

  1. The person who contacted you about the advent mitten pattern was me.
    Thanks to your help, I was able to finish all the mittens and mail them to my grandson so he received them before December 1. Thank you so much!
    Wishing you a bright holiday season filled with love ❤️

    • Hello, how lovely to hear from you! And how wonderful that you were able to knit all those little mittens in time – such a nice gift for your grandson. Thank you for your kind wishes – I hope to send you mine in a blog post next week.

  2. I love the mitten wreath. I would use it as a decoration if I were ever to attempt making it. The hat for your grandson is very cute. Hope that you can show us a picture of him wearing it.

    • The wreath would be great just for a decoration. The mini-mittens could also be used as Christmas tree decorations. Thank you for the hat love. His parents do not like posting pictures of him on the internet, and I am very careful with that, too.

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