This briliant idea is the brain child of Susan Rainey who created these Snowfall Mitts to showcase changing colors of beads again a single color yarn background.
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Get your pattern directly from the designer on her Ravelry page here. What we have put together are simply kits of yarn and beads as described below.
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The Design
I quote the designer here:
Beads as colorwork!
That is what is unique about these mitts.
Instead of using beads to add bling to a lace pattern, the beads are meant to replicate the beautiful gradient yarns that we all love.
Larger beads are used for this reason. Using beads for the colorwork actually frees you from the confines of other types of color knitting. Unlike stranded knitting, you can use more than one color in a row. And it isn’t intarsia!
Yarn and Colorways
Susan shows a dark and a light pair of mitts. We do not offer the exact yarn that she used -- you can see ours in the lower righthand corner of the top photo on this page and again below that.
As she recommends a heavy fingering or sport weight yarn for these, we have selected Silk Blend from Manos.
This is a 70% extrafine merino wool + 30% silk with 150 yards (135m) per 50g skein. One skein should make a pair of any size.
1. Silver is a very pale gray.
2. Black is (yes! you guessed it!) black.
Beads
The beads are the star of this show. Susan writes:
Size 6 in three colors are added in two ways: the ribbing is knit with beads that you string onto the yarn prior to knitting. The snowflake beads are added using a crochet hook of size 1.25-1.4 mm (or whatever method, hook size works for you).
She gives recommendations for bead colors for the lighter mitts (silver-aqua-turquoise) and the darker mitts (gold-orange-ruby). We will follow these as closely as we can but may have to do some variations. Our beads are all either Miyuki or Toho, the very highest quality.
Altogether your kit will include enough of the lightest, medium, and darkest bead colors to make the larger size of mitts.
