After the Frost Mitts

After the Frost Mitts by Melanie Berg

Project Overview

After the Frost Mitts are a pair of knitted winter gloves designed by Melanie Berg as part of a coordinating accessory set that includes a matching beret. These romantic and timeless mittens are crafted to elevate your winter wardrobe with sophisticated styling. The pattern is part of a larger collection, allowing you to create a complete wintry outfit using just two skeins of yarn.

What You'll Make

This pattern produces a pair of knitted mittens featuring cable stitch details. The mittens are designed as a coordinating piece to work alongside the matching beret pattern, creating a cohesive winter accessory collection. The finished mittens showcase classic cable work construction suitable for intermediate knitters.

Knitting Techniques

The After the Frost Mitts employ several intermediate-level knitting techniques to create their distinctive appearance:

• Cable stitches – The pattern features cable work as a primary design element, creating textured and visually interesting fabric
• Double-pointed needle knitting – Construction uses multiple needle sizes in double-pointed format for seamless, circular knitting
• Increases – The pattern includes M1L (make one left) increases for shaping the mittens
• Slip stitches – Purlwise slip stitches are used in cable preparation

Stitches Used

The pattern incorporates the following stitches and abbreviations:

• k – Knit stitch, the fundamental knitting stitch
• c6b – Cable 6 back: slip 3 stitches purlwise to a cable needle and hold to the back of the work, knit 3 stitches from the left needle, then knit 3 stitches from the cable needle
• c6f – Cable 6 front: slip 3 stitches purlwise to a cable needle and hold to the front of the work, knit 3 stitches from the left needle, then knit 3 stitches from the cable needle
• M1L – Make one left: insert left needle from front to back under the running thread between stitches to create a new stitch

Yarn and Materials

Yarn: The pattern calls for Knit Picks Gloss Fingering, a luxury blend yarn composed of 70% Merino wool and 30% silk. This fiber combination provides warmth, breathability, and a subtle sheen characteristic of silk content. One skein in the colorway "Robot" provides 50 grams and 220 yards (201 meters), with approximately 202 yards (185 meters) used for the sample mittens shown. Two skeins of this yarn are sufficient to complete both the After the Frost Mitts and the coordinating beret.

Needles: The pattern requires three sizes of US double-pointed needles for different stages of construction:

• US 2.5 [3.0 mm] double-pointed needles
• US 4 [3.5 mm] double-pointed needles
• US 6 [4.0 mm] double-pointed needles

Difficulty Level

Rated as intermediate, the After the Frost Mitts pattern is suitable for knitters with foundational skills who are ready to work with cable stitches and multiple needle sizes. The cable techniques and increases require attention to detail and familiarity with reading knitting patterns, making this an ideal project for advancing your knitting abilities.