{"id":2052,"date":"2016-01-08T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:59:27","slug":"have-i-got-a-thumb-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/have-i-got-a-thumb-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Herringbone Mittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"Wheretobuy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/4sCb\">Click here to buy Herringbone Mittenst on Payhip<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"Wheretobuy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/purchase\/christine-guest-designs\/304392\">Click here to buy Herringbone Mittens on Ravelry<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"Wheretobuy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovecrafts.com\/en-us\/p\/half-moon-mitts-knit-knitting-pattern-by-christine-guest?utm_medium=affiliate&amp;a_aid=d9481915\">Click here to buy Herringbone Mittens on lovecrafts with an Affliate Link that gives me extra money<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I asked some test knitters for advice about what to design next, Heidi suggested a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/herringbone-mittens-2\">Herringbone Mitten<\/a> to match the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/herringbone-rectangular-scarf\">scarves,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/herringbone-cowl-5\">cowl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/herringbone-toque\">toque<\/a>. \u00a0Because it&#8217;s fun to make matching sets of things, and bias herringbone is fun.<\/p>\n<p>I thought a bias thumb was impossible. I wrote her that it was impossible. I wrote to Elizabeth Green to ask her if I was right that it was impossible &#8211; but I never sent the note, because just as I was about to hit sent, I saw little plastic tan-a-gram pieces clicking into a bias thumb shape. I sketched it on a spare envelope back, and reluctantly ran to the kitchen to start supper &#8211; because the family&#8217;s got to eat even if I am inspired and my right brain is sending me freaky video solutions with sound effects!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2053 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Herringbone Mitten\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know it was a Thursday, because Dan brought all of the kids to the library for chess night after supper, and I was left alone in peaceful quiet to graph my thumb, cast on my thumb, and knit it while I streamed an episode of Nova. Just as the kids burst through the doors to tell me about the games, I tried the thumb on and, wow! it worked!\u00a0(But thumbs without mittens look really bizarre)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/S6307081.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/S6307081-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"S6307081\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/S6307081-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/S6307081-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pattern repeat is pretty long, so sizing while maintaining the stitch pattern was a bear. \u00a0I decided to make four samples in four different weights of yarn for sizing, but to give all of the different gauges and measurements so you can confidently size your mitten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4631.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4631-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Herringbone Mitten in different sizes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4631-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4631-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still had a lot of Quince and Co Lark in Storm color from the rectangular scarf and the sweater which I haven&#8217;t published yet, so I picked more autumn-y colors to go with it &#8211; but despite the sample colors, the mittens have been warm enough in winter so far, K is wearing the split pea green ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4648-e1452261197601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4648-e1452261197601-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two wrist Lengths for the Herringbone Mittens\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4648-e1452261197601-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4648-e1452261197601-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4648-e1452261197601.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heidi was concerned that the wrist was too short, so I wrote a variation into the pattern with a longer one, you can see the difference in the two split pea mittens above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/flatmitten.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/flatmitten-300x192.png\" alt=\"flat mitten sketch copyright Christine Guest 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/flatmitten-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/flatmitten-1024x657.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see that the mitten shape is like the Herringbone Toque shape, only longer and more narrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/foldedMItten.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2058 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/foldedMItten-153x300.png\" alt=\"foldedMItten copyright Christine Guest 2015\" width=\"153\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/foldedMItten-153x300.png 153w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/foldedMItten-521x1024.png 521w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/foldedMItten.png 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the mitten curls up, you graft it &#8211; you can get really fiddly and keep the knits and purls lined up, or you can just do the whole row in one stitch &#8211; I have photos of both treatments in the pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumbbeforeFold.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2059 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumbbeforeFold-142x300.png\" alt=\"thumbbeforeFold illustration copyright Christine Guest 2015\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumbbeforeFold-142x300.png 142w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumbbeforeFold-486x1024.png 486w, https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumbbeforeFold.png 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the thumb itself is worked in the round into a diagonal slot left in the mitten seaming. \u00a0You make rapid decreases for the web of the thumb and the bottom of the hand, then finish off in two parallelograms. \u00a0To finish the thumb, you fold the top triangle down into the bottom v, and graft it. \u00a0In Rib and Welt Diagonals, (or garter stitch) the fabric had enough stretch that it molds to the rounded shape of the tip of your thumb. \u00a0But in stockinette, you get ears on either side. \u00a0I have photos of both treatments in the pattern so you can decide which you&#8217;d like better.<\/p>\n<ul id=\"Wheretobuy\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul id=\"Wheretobuy\">\n<li id=\"Wheretobuy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/4sCb\">Click here to buy Herringbone Mittenst on Payhip<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"Wheretobuy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/purchase\/christine-guest-designs\/304392\">Click here to buy Herringbone Mittens on Ravelry<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"Wheretobuy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovecrafts.com\/en-us\/p\/half-moon-mitts-knit-knitting-pattern-by-christine-guest?utm_medium=affiliate&amp;a_aid=d9481915\">Click here to buy Herringbone Mittens on lovecrafts with an Affliate Link that gives me extra money<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to buy Herringbone Mittenst on Payhip Click here to buy Herringbone Mittens on Ravelry Click here to buy Herringbone Mittens on lovecrafts with an Affliate Link that gives me extra money I asked some test knitters for advice about what to design next, Heidi suggested a Herringbone Mitten to match the scarves, cowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,455,464,25],"tags":[305,306,307],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessory","category-all-patterns","category-bias-herringbone","category-technique","tag-diagonal-thumb","tag-herringbone-mitten","tag-new-thumb-technique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Herringbone Mittens - Christine Guest Designs Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Herringbone mittens are knit on the bias and grafted together. 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