knitshop.co.uk: Fair Isle Wrist Warmer

Thursday, March 14

Fair Isle Wrist Warmer

Fair Isle Wrist Warmer – striking two-tone pattern to download

The cold snap has certainly arrived but you can’t hibernate all winter. Sooner or later you need to venture outside. Whatever you do, make sure you’re properly covered up, including your extremities. It’s a frozen world out there. (We’ve even found it cold enough indoors at the moment to merit pulling on a pair of fingerless gloves and our Ugg boots while we tap away at our laptops.)

The silver lining to all this cold weather is that it’s the perfect time to knit cosy jumpers, hats, scarves and gloves. We’re particularly fond of gloves as they are quick to knit, can be as plain or as fancy as you like and are inexpensive to make. This means we don’t feel quite so guilty purchasing even more yarn.

To be fair, we don’t need much of an excuse to snaffle a couple of balls of knitshop.co.uk Simply Wool. It comes in some amazing colours, including purple, turquoise, tomato red and a cheerful yellow. It’s also 100 percent natural wool and costs just £5.90 for a 100g ball.

This lovely yarn is used as the basis of these Fairisle Wrist Warmers. The pattern is knitted in the round using 4mm or 5mm double-pointed needles. As well as written instructions, there is a helpful chart to work from so you can see exactly what your knitting should look like.

To make the Fair Isle Wrist Warmers you’ll need two, different coloured, balls of Simply Wool. We’ve used purple and teal in our example, but there’s a choice of 15 shades. Choose a combination to match your winter coat or favourite jacket. Each ball of yarn is 200m long, so you’ll have plenty left over for other projects – a headband to keep your ears warm, perhaps?

If you need some tips on how to knit in the round or how to alternate colours, there’s a helpful list of instructions for different types of stitch here: www.knitshop.co.uk/stitch.

You might also find it handy to try one of knitshop.co.uk’s excellent classes. We even have one specifically on Knitting In The Round: http://knitshop.co.uk/workshops/2674-knitting-in-the-round.html.