Another Visit to Echo Lodge

Echo Lodge Mitts Release Day!

While I knit my Echo Lodge Socks over a month ago, they kept chatting with me. Eventually those lovely socks crescendoed into straight up begging for a pair of fingerless mitts to match them.

In an effort to shut them up placate them, I cast on the Echo Lodge Mitts. I have to say that I’m glad I gave into those socks! I adore my new fingerless mitts.

These mitts, like the socks, are inspired by the array of characters who come together in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Avonlea. If you haven’t read the book, please do. The Anne Books will warm the cockles of your heart, plus make you laugh, cry, and want to travel to a distant island dotted with lighthouses and lined by red clay cliffs.

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Lightweight fingerless mitts like the Echo Lodge Mitts are perfect for the changing weather. I don’t know about you, but I am sincerely looking forward to the cooling temps that are on their way. If you cast these on now, your new mitts will be ready for the impending shift of seasons.

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Like the Echo Lodge Socks, the Mitts incorporate a sweet rambling lace along the back of the hand. The thumb gusset also features a little lace line traipsing down to the wrist. Both sets of lace are mirrored on the left and right mitts. (I am a huge fan of symmetry!)

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And let me tell you about this thumb join! Admittedly, I opt for efficiency at every opportunity. To join the “thumb cuff” to top-down fingerless mitts, I designed the process so that all of the work is completed in one round.

Once you finish the join round—including a bind off and a meager four picked up stitches, all you have left is to weave in ends later.

I’ll be honest—you may have never done the join this way. I’m not sure that I ever had. However, I created written instructions for the join that were tech edited as well as test knit. PLUS, I created a video tutorial that holds your hand through the entire join process. This tutorial is marked Private on YouTube and is exclusively available to owners of this pattern.

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Pattern Specs

Finished Sizes: Child/Adult XS (6”/15cm), Adult S/M (7”/18cm), Adult L (8”/20cm), Adult XL (9”/23cm)

Finished size should fit with 0-1”/2.5cm negative ease around the widest part of your palm.

Schematics are included to aid in proper measuring and fit.

Gauge: 8 sts x 12 rows = 1” (2.5cm) in stockinette

Suggested Needles: US Size 1 (2.25mm); 32” circular or needles for small circumference knitting

Note: You will need two sets of needles to complete the thumb join.

Notions: Tape Measure, Darning Needle, Stitch Markers

Yarn:

1 - 100g skein of fingering weight sock yarn (Main Color)

1 - 20g (92yds) skein of fingering weight sock yarn (Contrasting Color)

Sample uses:

Must Stash Yarn Perfect Sock (75% Superwash Merino/25% Nylon); 460yds/100g; “Lavender Apple Blossom” (MC)

Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper Mini Skein (75% Superwash Merino/25% Nylon); 92yds/20g; “Breaking Ground” (CC)

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Discounts!!!

From now through August 24, 2023 (11:59pm EST), take 40% off the regular price. On Etsy, no code needed. Use code SCONES on Ravelry.

From now through Monday, August 14, 2023 (11:59pm EST), take 50% off the regular price using the code TEATIME on both Ravelry and Etsy.

If you are a Subscriber, you are most likely to see this post in time to take 60% off the regular price! (You don’t have to be a Subscriber to take advantage of this, but why would you NOT want to have the best discount sent right to your inbox?!)

This discount doesn’t last long, so don’t wait! This code is good through Friday, August 11, 2023 (11:59pm EST).

Use code SUGARCUBE on Ravelry and Etsy.

Bonus Discounted Pattern

This week is the State Fair of WV!! To celebrate, my Fairlea Hat pattern is on sale—60% off!— until August 20, 2023, (11:59pm EST). No coupon needed on Ravelry and Etsy! (On Ravelry, you’ll see the discount after you add it to your cart.)

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Want to read more about the Echo Lodge Socks? Check out this post.

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Check out my most recent YouTube episode where I chat about my Echo Lodge Mitts, as well as other designs (including a drinkable design!), FOs, WIPs, and a book that puts the *graphic* in “graphic novel.”

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