Flip Top Mittens for Elder Offspring

Notes: My first pair of Flip Top Mittens were made for me, and I have wide hands, with short fingers. Wee and wide. The Elder Offspring borrowed my flip tops, and later tried on a pair of wrist warmers, and asked if I might be able to adapt the wrist warmers into flip top mittens.

Yarn: Deramores Studio Anti-pilling DK
Composition: Acrylic 100%
Colour: Wine 70045
Pattern: Flip Top Mittens
Size: Adult
Needles: 3.75mm
Started: 2nd December 2018
Finished: 29th December 2018

Cast on 40sts on 3.75mm needles. Join.

Work 20 rounds of 2x2 rib.

Increases for thumb
1. K1, kfb, k to last stitch, kfb.
2. K (and every second round).
3. K2, kfb, k to second last stitch, kfb, k.
5. K3, kfb, k to third last stitch, kfb, k2.
7. K4, kfb, k to fourth last stitch, kfb, k3.

Continue in this manner until there are 54sts on the needles. Then work 12 rounds of stocking stitch. Knit to last 8 stitches, and transfer the 8 stitches to waste yarn. Also transfer the first 8 stitches of the next round to waste yarn. 36st will remain on the needles. Work 10 rounds of 2x2 rib.

Right Mitten
Cast on 18sts, then pick up 18sts from the front of the glove, starting about 3 rows below the transition from stocking stitch to rib. Work 10 rounds of k1, (p2, k2) x5, knit to end or round. Then switch to stocking stitch for 10 rounds.

Decreases for fingers
1. (K1, ssk, k12, k2tog, k1) twice.
2. K.
3. (K1, ssk, k10, k2tog, k1) twice.
4. K
5. (K1, ssk, k8, k2tog, k1) twice
6. K
7. (K1, ssk, k6, k2tog, k1) twice
Graft the remaining 16sts.

Thumb
Transfer the 16st for the thumb from the waste yarn onto needles. Join and knit 13 rounds in stocking stitch. Knit two together eight time (8sts). Knit one round. Break yarn, leaving a tail, and thread the yarn through the stitches to fasten off. Draw up tightly and weave in the end.

Left Mitten
Cast on 18sts, then pick up 18sts from the reverse of the glove, starting about 3 rows below the transition from stocking stitch to rib. Work 10 rounds of k1, (p2, k2) x5, knit to end or round. Then switch to stocking stitch for 10 rounds. Continue with instructions for Right Mitten.