If you remember, I mentioned last month that I had a mitten published in the November/December 2022 issue of Needlepoint Now.
After I completed designing the other two, I started experimenting with different designs using the same colours in the kit. Last month, I featured a mitten using some of the kit colours and added a tropical blend. This month I used all the colours included in the kit.
I always like to offer custom thread kits providing more than sufficient volume for a project. I almost never stitch a project myself where I don’t end up ripping part of my stitching out!
Creating This Pattern With Our Custom Mitten Thread Kit
While the custom mitten thread kit has all you need to create a beautiful design, there is no actual pattern offered for this mitten. You have full creative freedom over what you want to create!
I started with randomly placing small circular Rhodes stitches using Colour 183 (purples). Once I liked the placement, I added small Jessica’s in Colour 120 and stitched a tiny Smyrna stitch in the center with a green metallic. You might like to use a turquoise metallic – whatever you have in your stash!
I then added Smyrna stitches placed between in Colour 33. If you can I would suggest fussy cutting your thread so the darker blue shows up more – I didn’t do this in my sample and as you can see some of my smyrna’s get a bit lost in the background. The body of the mitten was filled in with basketweave using Colour 73. The cuff is a diagonal Milanese using Colour 120
You can find all these stitches in the Stitches books by Ruth Schmuff and Kathy Holicky.
