Wild Mittens and Unruly Socks 3 - by Lumi Karmitsa (Paperback)

About the Book

"The highly anticipated third installment of this popular set takes knitters on a brand-new and freshly exhilarating journey, filled with color and imagination: roaring tigers, cunning foxes, wide-eyed fawns, whirling flowers, and so much more! With Lumi Karmitsa's creativity, inventiveness, and unforgettable color combinations coming to life on every page, this is an endlessly charming collection full of design delights no knitter will want to miss"--

Book Synopsis

A third volume of imaginative, adventuresome mitten and sock patterns from hip, young Finnish knitwear designer Lumi Karmitsa.

The highly anticipated third installment of this popular set takes knitters on a brand-new and freshly exhilarating journey, filled with color and imagination: roaring tigers, cunning foxes, wide-eyed fawns, whirling flowers, and so much more! With Lumi Karmitsa's creativity, inventiveness, and unforgettable color combinations coming to life on every page, this is an endlessly charming collection full of design delights no knitter will want to miss.

Packed with dynamic, expressive, irrepressibly fun patterns for mittens, socks, and matching sets

Clear step-by-step instructions, with full-color charts and high-quality photos

Readily adaptable designs--mix and match, choose your own colors, work long or short socks and mittens with or without decorative cuffs

Review Quotes

"Stranded knitting is most often used to produce repeating patterns around an entire garment, as in traditional Fair Isle or Nordic-style knitting. In Wild Mittens & Unruly Socks 3, Lumi Karmitsa uses stranded knitting to make pictures instead ... [and] there's not much in knitting that I find more motivating than watching a picture grow beneath my needles."--Yarn Geeks

"Finnish designer Lumi Karmitsa has only been knitting for five years. You certainly can't tell from the intricate designs she creates for mittens and socks. Apparently, no one told her that colorwork wasn't for beginning knitters, and that's quite a good thing. The designs in this book are a riot of flowers, animals, symbols, and even a spiritual leader or two. The colors are bright and exciting, and the charts are big enough to knit from the book. The colorwork is mostly two colors per row, but a few have three, and the gauge ranges from 5.5 to 8 stitches to an inch. My only disappointment is that all of the patterns are written for only one size. But I am certainly willing to change needles sizes or do some math to partake in the imagination this book has in it. What other books could you find patterns for Buddha, a Staffordshire puppy, a skully Santa, kitties, aliens, and genius rose sock with a double-layered lace toe? This book is a celebration of knitting creativity." --knitty.com (Wild Mittens and Unruly Socks)

About the Author

Lumi Karmitsa writes, draws, and uses her hands for almost anything to make the world a more beautiful place. Five years ago, Lumi started knitting mittens for friends and got hooked. She's rapidly become a star of the Finnish knitting scene, and her inventive patterns have kicked off a colorwork knitting mania. Lumi resides in Mellinintie, Finland. This is her 3rd book with Trafalgar Square Books, following Wild Mittens & Unruly Socks (published in 2018), and Wild Mittens & Unruly Socks 2 (published in 2020).