Russia has always been famous for its cold winters. Therefore, for many centuries, people have tried to adapt to severe frosts.
A hat and a hood are put on his head, a scarf wrapped three times around his neck, warm down jacket and fur-lined boots warm his body and legs. But for some reason everyone forgets about hands that are freezing like never before in this cold season.
For everyone
Mittens have always been an indispensable element of winter clothing in Russia. Of course, they were home-made, made from the wool of sheep or goats. Such a product was indispensable for a person of any status and condition.
Rich noblewomen covered their mittens with beads, embroidered patterns and fur lapels on top of a knitted product, which was often dyed in brighter colors with natural dyes. And various maids and serfs were content with the classic version, which, although it was simple, it perfectly heated frozen fingers.
Fashionable today
Currently, mittens are not going to give up their positions. They even overcome the onslaught of leather gloves, which may look more elegant, but certainly do not warm better. Even now, if an experienced craftswoman takes an interest in this topic, she will not only show how to knit mittens. But it will surprise you with a variety of different knitted patterns.
So, the Princess mittens, knitted with needles, simply amaze with their tenderness and elegance. The fact is that in their manufacture very high quality yarn is used, which will be discussed a little later. Such an accessory will become not only beautiful mittens of a little fashionista who wants to warm her frozen fingers. But also a stylish addition to the winter wardrobe of a true lady who can make them herself. Since the mittens "Princess" with a description do not require special skills and costs.
What is nowhere without
It's time to prepare materials for mittens. To be honest, they are all the same as if you decided to knit any other product for the winter.
Yarn Her choice should be given great importance, since the warmth of your hands will depend on the density of the canvas. So, you should choose threads with a high content of wool of sheep, goats or merino. In addition, angora, cashmere, rayon and nylon can be included in the composition, which will provide your mittens with tensility and softness. In total, about 200 meters of yarn will be needed.
Knitting needles . In this case, a set of 3-4 knitting needles, which are usually used for knitting stockings or socks, is ideal. Their thickness directly depends on the yarn you choose.
You will also need:
- Various knitting things, like a marker or an automatic row counter.
- Beads or half beads for further decoration.
And finally, how to knit mittens, if you do not even know where to start? Or is this generally your first large-scale creation, which is why you are immensely worried. Then you need the Princess mittens scheme. She will put your excitement in place and detail the plan for creating the product.
Mittens "Princess" with a description
It's time to start making gloves. To make this lesson understandable to knitters of all levels, the process will be analyzed step by step, which greatly facilitates the perception of new material.
- First, we knit the left mittens: for this we collect 42 loops and evenly distribute over several knitting needles. Now you need to mark the beginning of the row with the so-called "marker" and connect all the loops into a ring.
- We knit the first circle and, reaching the marker, shift it to the right knitting needle. Then we knit the second row with facial loops, after which we repeat the action 4 times using a garter stitch.
- Next - it's time to make mittens cuffs: with them, their use becomes easier. To do this, we knit about 5 centimeters according to the scheme given below. After the cuffs are ready, you need to knit four more rows of garter stitch.
- Now we add one loop so that there are 43 on the knitting needles, and we knit according to the scheme given in the description to the 18th row. When the required number of rows is ready, we make the 18th row, 11 loops from which you need to knit with an unnecessary thread of bright color.
- After the loops of a different color were on the right needle, remove them and move them back to the left. We knit the first 2 loops together with the front stitch already with the working thread, the next 7 also, and the last 2 are again connected together with the front loop. As a result, we got 9 loops that are responsible for the finger.
- Now you can forget about all the difficulties and continue to knit the product to the end of the pattern, performing all the details and patterns.
- When the entire base of the mitten is connected, the remaining half of the loops are removed on an unnecessary thread and fixed on the back of the product. The same thing is repeated with the second remaining group. Unfixed front loops are sewn with a stitch “from loop to loop”.
- Having turned out the mittens, we hide all unnecessary threads, carefully tied them.
- Now is the time to make a finger for the Princess mittens, the description of which we are gradually finishing the product. To do this, remove unnecessary thread from the mitten and distribute all the loops into 3 knitting needles. We knit a finger according to the scheme presented above.
Finishing touches
The mitt is completely ready to add decor elements. To do this, we will take a transparent thread and fix it with the help of beads in certain places of the product.
That's all, now it remains to repeat all the steps in the manufacturing process of the second Princess mittens, the description of which we have already familiarized with earlier. Keep your hands warm and stylish with homemade accessories for the cold winter!