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New pattern & giveaway alert! Feel Good Mitts

May 4, 2016 3 Comments

Feel Good Mitts by Heidi Gustad. Get your hands on the pattern for these skill-building and versatile hand warmers!

Fingerless mitts are probably my most-worn item of knitwear. I’ve struggled with tendonitis for over half my life (yep, I first had the issue when I was just 14!), so I learned at a younger-than-average age the importance of keeping your hands warm to encourage good circulation and hand health. My newest pattern is now available, and it’s all about keeping your hands warm to make them feel good!

Get the Feel Good Mitts pattern on Ravelry now.

Feel Good Mitts by Heidi Gustad. Get your hands on the pattern for these skill-building and versatile hand warmers!

You’ve got a couple options when you knit up these mitts. You can use 6 different colors of Feel Good Yarn Company’s SilverSpun Sport mini skeins, which are 14 grams and 50 yards apiece. Or you can avoid weaving in ends a couple ways: You can leave ’em fringey like this.

Feel Good Yarn Co. yarn is would with real silver, making it perfect for therapeutic projects to encourage circulation like hand warmers or socks.

…or you can simply knit them in a solid color like this. Either way, these mitts are relaxing to knit and include a handful (no pun intended) of techniques to make your finished knitting project perfectly polished. These construction and finishing techniques are adaptable to so many other knitting projects beyond the Feel Good Mitts!

Feel Good Mitts by Heidi Gustad. Get your hands on the pattern for these skill-building and versatile hand warmers!

Giveaway Alert!

It wouldn’t be a new pattern release without a super fun giveaway! Enter here to win a set of 6 mini skeins to make your first pair of Feel Good Mitts, plus a convenient little project bag to carry your knits-in-progress. The colors included in the bag are: Sugar Plum, Spumante, Starry Night, Natural, Silver Dust & Sterling Indigo.

To enter, follow the instructions in the box below. If you’re not reading this post on handsoccupied.com, you should visit the post itself to enter in the giveaway box provided. Good luck!

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6 mini skeins of Feel Good Yarn Company's SilverSpun Sport and a sweet little project bag.

Giveaway made possible by Feel Good Yarn Company. 

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About Heidi

Heidi Gustad is a craft book author, designer & creator specializing in yarn crafts like knitting, crochet, latch hook & macramé. Her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now.

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  1. Barb Nelson

    May 7, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    Lovely colors. However, stars are my favorite things, so Starry Night would be my favorite color.

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  2. J ulie Esponge

    May 7, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    I would love to win this giveaway! Thank-you for the opportunity!

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  3. Kathy McCann

    May 8, 2016 at 12:40 am

    These mitts are really cute! I need to make some for myself before next fall. It gets really cold here in Washington. I would love to win this giveaway! Thanks for offering this!

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