Girly Girl Mittens

Girly Girl Mittens by Terry Morris

Project Overview

The Girly Girl Mittens are a charming knitted accessory designed for children ages 4-6 years. Created by designer Terry Morris, these mittens feature delicate ruffles, soft pastel colorwork, and a decorative flower motif that makes them an ideal project for crafting a pretty, feminine accessory for a special little girl.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a pair of child-sized mittens with coordinating design elements on both the front and back. The mittens showcase stranded colorwork techniques with a floral pattern and decorative ruffle edging, combining both aesthetic appeal and practical warmth for small hands.

Knitting Techniques Used

• Stranded Colorwork: The mittens employ stranded colorwork in stockinette stitch, allowing multiple yarn colors to be carried across the fabric to create the flower design and patterned details.
• Raised Increase Method: The pattern utilizes the Raised increase technique for shaping and construction throughout the mittens.
• Double Point Needle Construction: Mittens are worked in the round using double point needles, a traditional method for creating seamless tubular garments.
• Ruffled Edging: Soft ruffles are incorporated into the design, adding a decorative and feminine touch to the finished mittens.

Stitches and Stitch Details

The primary stitch used throughout the mittens is stockinette stitch, worked in the round to create a smooth, flat fabric ideal for displaying the stranded colorwork pattern. The gauge for this project is 8 stitches by 11 rounds per 1 inch over the stranded colorwork in stockinette stitch, ensuring proper fit for the child's size range. The pattern notes that the front and back of each mitten are identical, simplifying construction by requiring only two identical pieces.

Materials and Yarn

The Girly Girl Mittens require 100 yards of fingering or baby weight yarn distributed across four coordinating colors. The sample mittens shown in the pattern were knit with Baby Ull by Dalegarn, a 100% washable wool yarn available in 50-gram skeins with a yardage of 175 meters per skein. The four colors used in the sample are:

• Main Color (MC): 4711 Light Pink – 1 skein
• Contrasting Color (A): 8523 Medium Green – 1 skein
• Contrasting Color (B): 4505 Dark Pink – 1 skein
• Contrasting Color (C): 2015 Yellow – 1 skein

Needles and Tools

Construction requires one set of US Size 1 (2.25mm) double point needles, or the size needed to achieve the specified gauge. Additional materials include 2 stitch markers for tracking pattern repeats and shaping, and smooth waste yarn for holding stitches during construction and finishing.

Pattern Features

The pattern includes charts provided in black and white with symbols for those who prefer traditional chart reading, along with a complete color layout for quick visual reference during knitting. This dual-chart approach accommodates different knitter preferences and makes following the stranded colorwork pattern accessible and straightforward. The soft pastel color palette—light pink, medium green, dark pink, and yellow—creates a cheerful, age-appropriate design perfect for young children.