Welcome to day 3 of the Migraineur pattern reveal party! Today I have another offering for your hands: Spikehands, A pair of fingerless mitts defined by mitered squares and changing directions.
The “Spike” chapter of Migraineur takes its inspiration from stabbing pain, which is not always a feature of migraines, but certainly can be. Slipped stitches give these mitered squares very direct turn lines line, tracing from the … thumb crotch? What would you call that? Place where your thumb meets the base of the rest of your fingers, down to the outside of the base of the hand. You will knit diagonally, sideways, down, and up, but you won’t have to sew any seams at the end. This pattern was a fun little puzzle to create, and then to figure out how to communicate it (hopefully) clearly.
The above colourway I have called “Patina,” and we’ll now hand it off (har har) to the second colourway, “Rust.”
The reason for the colourway names will be more clear when the pattern (and its associated poem) come out in the book.
One fun feature of these mitts is that you change which colour to use as a slip stitch from one side of the mitts to the other. So you can choose to wear them with either colour on the back of your hands, and if you change your mind, just switch!
If you need a quick little brain teaser of a knit, Spikehands might be just right for you. I’ll be back in two days with one of Spikehands’ companion pieces.
Thank you to Florence Clark for knitting the Rust sample, and to Akumalik, Marikah, and Rebekka Sanguin for modeling.
Osborn Fiber Studio 