Flyfisher's Mitten Pattern

Making a Mitten	UltraLite Hiking

Here are directions for a simple to sew (first project) mitten made of fleece. All other projects on these pages use the same sort of directions, so starting here and knowing how to make the mitten is a good way to get the sewing machine working.

	The directions assume you have made a pattern. The pattern is made from the table of offsets below. To read the table, imagine a piece of graph paper set off in 1" squares on a piece of 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Think of the two directions on the graph paper as being x and y. X numbers run from 0 to 11, left to right. Y directions run from 0 to 8 starting at the bottom and going to the top.
For this pattern, cut a paper pattern out with scissors. Trace around the pattern on a double layer of fleece oriented as described to the right. Put the faces of the fleece against each other. They will end up on the outside after you cut out mitt and turn the mitten right side out. I have found that you can mark fleece with a dry marker. Sew with a zigzag stitch along the mark you make. Then cut out the mitten and eighth of an inch from the stitching being careful not to cut the stitching. Turn the mitt right side out and put it on to test.	It is important that you orient the pattern on the cloth. For fleece, one direction of the fleece stretches and the other does not stretch much. Orient the stretchy direction on the Y axis, across the wrist.

The following table gives the location of several points on the pattern. Mark these points, then cut the pattern out.

I wear a size 7.5 glove and this makes a nice sized mitten for me. If you make the mitten from cloth that does not stretch, increase the width of the wrist so you can get your hand in.

X	Y	Y	Y	Y
0	1.2	4.8
1	1.4	4.8
2	1.3	5.0
3	1.1	5.3
4	0.8	5.7
5	0.8	6.2
6	0.4	4.8	6.7
7	0.4	4.6	5.3	6.8
7.6	0.5	4.6	5.7	6.7
8	0.6	4.6	6.0
9	1.1	4.4
10	1.6	3.4
10.2	2.5