resizing mittens

my 6 year old wants a pair of these:

http://www.helloyarn.com/piratemittens.htm

except, obviously, he doesn't have 8" hand circumference. the
designer suggests changing to a fingering weight to get a 6"
circumference, which is still on the too big side. obviously i
haven't test knitted anything yet, but is it likely a
fingering weight on size ones (US) might get me close? or
should i just graph out something similar on my own? he's not
crazy about the traditional pointy fingers part...
lee
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enigma wrote:
my 6 year old wants a pair of these:

http://www.helloyarn.com/piratemittens.htm

except, obviously, he doesn't have 8" hand circumference. the
designer suggests changing to a fingering weight to get a 6"
circumference, which is still on the too big side. obviously i
haven't test knitted anything yet, but is it likely a
fingering weight on size ones (US) might get me close? or
should i just graph out something similar on my own? he's not
crazy about the traditional pointy fingers part...

I think that it would work, but I don't know if I would want to use
that pattern with such fine yarn and small needles. You can always
change the fingers more to your own style. Let us know how it goes.

Higs,
Katherine

You can drop the "side seams" - 10 stitches total; you can also omit
the diamonds flanking each s&x motif and save a few more stitches.
Variations on this plus dropping down to fingering yarn on wee needles
ought to produce something the kiddo can wear.

On 8 Oct 2006 06:15:24 -0700, "Katherine" spewed
forth :


enigma wrote:
my 6 year old wants a pair of these:

http://www.helloyarn.com/piratemittens.htm

except, obviously, he doesn't have 8" hand circumference. the
designer suggests changing to a fingering weight to get a 6"
circumference, which is still on the too big side. obviously i
haven't test knitted anything yet, but is it likely a
fingering weight on size ones (US) might get me close? or
should i just graph out something similar on my own? he's not
crazy about the traditional pointy fingers part...

I think that it would work, but I don't know if I would want to use
that pattern with such fine yarn and small needles. You can always
change the fingers more to your own style. Let us know how it goes.

Higs,
Katherine


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Wooly wrote in
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You can drop the "side seams" - 10 stitches total; you can
also omit the diamonds flanking each s&x motif and save a
few more stitches. Variations on this plus dropping down to
fingering yarn on wee needles ought to produce something
the kiddo can wear.

ah, why didn't *i* think of that? i like the idea of working
fingering on ones, because, even with the double stranding, i
think fingering on 3s isn't going to make really warm mittens.
i think i'm going to have to make a mitten as the swatch with
these though.
i have an aquaintance whose child was born without a right
hand, so if i swatch left mittens & they're too big...
lee
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:06:28 +0000 (UTC), enigma
spewed forth :

ah, why didn't *i* think of that? i like the idea of working
fingering on ones, because, even with the double stranding, i
think fingering on 3s isn't going to make really warm mittens.
i think i'm going to have to make a mitten as the swatch with
these though.

I made the matching cap last week for my kiddo. I used worsted weight
yarn but I had to lose 20-odd stitches for the thing to fit his bean -
so I've been down this road with these charts

Happy knitting!

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my 6 year old wants a pair of these:
http://www.helloyarn.com/piratemittens.htm
except, obviously, he doesn't have 8" hand circumference. the
designer suggests changing to a fingering weight to get a 6"
circumference, which is still on the too big side. obviously i
haven't test knitted anything yet, but is it likely a
fingering weight on size ones (US) might get me close? or
should i just graph out something similar on my own? he's not
crazy about the traditional pointy fingers part...

Lee

Couldn't you just take the skull and crossbones chart from Hello Yarn
and put it on a mitten pattern you have that will fit your kid in a
less time consuming yarn size? That's what I'd do. I've found it
doesn't need to be an exact match for the recipient to be happy with
the results, and in many cases, they like it more because it's more
unique, not that they are likely to run across someone else who got
that exact pattern made for them, but you never know. I was thinking
that a small enough mitten pattern in DK/sport would probably only
take 2 skull repeats, which might also help with redesigning the tip.

Leah