Sunday, May 4, 2008

I'm calling these the Arctic Spring mittens because they are really quite lightweight. I used four colors of Elann's Peruvian Alpaca Fina which is a sportweight yarn but I used smaller needles than what was suggested to counteract alpaca's tendency toward stretching. I used size 2 dpns for the cuff and size 0 for the hand. They have a peasant thumb and a scalloped hem and the pattern is HERE.






I have one final idea for using alpaca for colorwork. It is going to be a chullo type hat for DH. I am also making some funky socks in gray, white, and burgundy from a very old issue of VK.