Knitted Baby Mitts

Nothing is more adorable than a tiny pair of mittens for a new baby and now you can knit your own for family and friends with these irresistible designs. Inside are 20 patterns in a range of colours and styles for boys and girls, from traditional stripes and cables to whimsical rabbits, frogs and ladybirds. Each design can be knitted in three different sizes suitable for 0-3, 3-6 and 6-12 month-old babies, with the option of including thumbs in the largest size. The patterns use small amounts of either baby- or fingering-weight yarn, and knit up quickly and easily using the clear, step-by-step instructions and full-colour charts provided. Each project comes with a list of the yarns and needles required and a stunning, full-colour photograph of the finished mittens, providing everything you need to create these gorgeous handmade gifts for babies.

Sian Brown has her own website: sianbrown.com, blog: sianbrown60@blogspot.co.uk and Facebook page: Sian Brown Knitwear Design. She is a freelance knitwear designer, and has designed hand knits for commercial companies supplying high street stores, as well as for several knitting magazines, yarn companies and books. She also sells her designs via Ravelry.A regular designer for Knitting magazine, Knit Today and Let’s KnitWrote The Knitted Home for GMC (published 2011)Co-authored two most recent Tea Cozies books (3 and 4) for GMC, and The Big Book of Knitting, Baby and Toddler Knits Made Easy and Winter Knits Made Easy for DK.Contributed designs for Nicki Trench’s 201 Motif Blocks: Projects and Ideas, Nicki Trench’s Geek Chic Crochet, Rooster Yarns’ Village Living and Grannies Inc Guide to Knitting.

Introduction4

What you need6

Stitches used8

Transferring the designs14

Using an embroidery hoop15

The samplers 1680

The projects82

The transfers96