Unbound mitts

Unbound Mitts by Bunnymuff - Mona Zillah

What Is Being Made

Unbound Mitts is a downloadable knitting pattern for a pair of gloves or mittens designed by independent designer Bunnymuff (Mona Zillah). The pattern offers multiple size options and features colorwork design elements using a main color and three coordinating contrast colors.

Craft and Primary Technique

This is a knitting project classified as intermediate difficulty, making it suitable for knitters with some foundational experience beyond basic stockinette stitch. The pattern incorporates colorwork techniques that require managing multiple yarn colors throughout the construction process.

Stitches and Construction Methods

The Unbound Mitts pattern employs several key knitting techniques:

• Cable cast-on - The pattern uses a cable cast-on method to establish the initial stitches. This technique involves creating a slip knot on the needle, knitting one stitch, twisting it, and replacing it to the left needle. The knitter then repeats a sequence of knitting between the first and second stitch on the left needle and replacing to the left needle until reaching the desired number of cast-on stitches.
• Knit stitch (k) - The fundamental knit stitch forms the basis of the fabric construction.
• Lifted increases (m1L-lift and m1R-lift) - The pattern uses left-leaning and right-leaning lifted or raised increases for shaping. These increases are worked by lifting the left leg of a stitch from 2 rows below the current stitch on the needle, allowing for invisible or decorative increases depending on placement.
• Colorwork - The design incorporates multiple colors worked into the pattern, requiring the knitter to manage color changes throughout the project.

Yarn and Materials

The Unbound Mitts pattern calls for Shetland 4ply yarn by Gathered Sheep Yarns, a fingering-weight yarn composed of 100% pure Shetland wool. The yarn is available at 96 yards (87.8 meters) per 20 grams.

The pattern uses a main color and three contrast colors across the available sizes:

• MC (Vampires Blood) - Main color requiring 12 grams (58 yards / 53 meters) for smaller sizes, or 16 grams (78 yards / 71 meters) for the largest size
• CC1 (Creepy Pumpkin) - First contrast color requiring 9 grams (44 yards / 39 meters) for smaller sizes, or 12 grams (58 yards / 53 meters) for the largest size
• CC2 (New Beginnings) - Second contrast color requiring 4 grams (20 yards / 18 meters) for smaller sizes, or 8 grams (39 yards / 36 meters) for the largest size
• CC3 (Purple Jam) - Third contrast color requiring 6 to 8 grams depending on size, with yardage ranging from 34 yards upward

Knitters will need knitting needles appropriate for 4-ply yarn weight to complete this project. The combination of 3-ply and 4-ply yarn weight options provides flexibility for different knitting preferences and finished fabric characteristics.