Silk or Yarn Mittens

Ingredients

• With seal brown, or black Saxony yarn or silk, and four fine needles, cast on seventy-two stitches.
• until you have a wrist an inch and a half long.
• until you have twenty-one stitches for the thumb.
• Pick up the twenty-one thumb stitches with seven other stitches taken up where the thumb joins the hand.

Method

1. 1

   Cast on seventy-two stitches, knit three, and seam three until wrist is 1.5 inches long.

2. 2

   For the thumb, make a stitch on each side of the center stitch, widening every seventh time around until you have 21 stitches.

3. 3

   Slip these off on a strong thread, cast in 3 stitches, join work and finish the hand.

4. 4

   Knit three and seam three until fingers' end, narrow off every three stitches.

5. 5

   Pick up thumb stitches and knit plain, narrow off as in plain mittens.

6. 6

   Crochet a little border around the wrist.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 196. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SILK OR YARN MITTENS. This mitten is ribbed from wrist to finger tips, and fits as perfectly as a glove. The thumb is knit plain, and set in like plain mittens. With seal brown, or black Saxony yarn or silk, and four fine needles, cast on seventy-two stitches, in three needles, knit three, and seam three, until you have a wrist an inch and a half long. Now commence the thumb. In the middle of the needle, where three stitches are knit, make a stitch (by picking up a loop) on each side of the center stitch, making five stitches instead of three. Widen in this manner every seventh time around, until you have twenty-one stitches for the thumb. Slip these twenty-one stitches off on a strong thread, make or cast in three stitches, join your work and finish the hand, knitting three, and seaming three stitches, until the end of the fingers is reached, then nar- row off as quickly as possible, narrow every three stitches. Pick up the twenty-one thumb stitches with seven other stitches taken up where the thumb joins the hand,

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