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Wrist Warmers
A few months ago I found a pattern online that would soon become my favorite quick project for the winter. It is called Mrs. Beeton Wrist Warmers. Mrs. Beeton is considered a Victorian England’s equivalent of Martha Stewart. This project is knitted on double pointed needles. If you’ve never knitted with 5 needles before I recommend you try a pair of mittens first. The only stitches that vary from the regular knit and purl are K2tog and SSK. Instructions for these stitches can be found here.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/abbreviations_explained/
This website has videos for every type of knitting stitch. Just scroll down until you find the right abbreviation. You will need sport weight yarn and fingering weight yarn. They don’t take a whole lot of either kind, so depending on what you have stashed in your house, you may not even have to buy anything. Below are pictures of a few of the pairs I have knitted. Here is the link to the pattern for Mrs. Beeton’s Wrist Warmers.
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/PATTmrsbeeton.html
Posted by lilypress at February 2, 2006 4:27 AM
Comments
I am having difficulty with the Mrs. Beeton wristwarmers. Did you come across any problems? How do you purl the first stitch in the round using double pointed needles. Also, after you do the beaded cast on and move to the main color for the bottom bell, do you continue to hold on to the finer yarn? Let me know. Thanks.
Posted by: Damiane Lucas at February 24, 2006 7:03 AM
