The Astor Place Mitts pattern was just released by Kirsten Kapur as part of the Through The Loops 10th Anniversary Collection. The mitts were designed to make the most of the deliciously slubby, tweedy texture of Berroco Artisan, a worsted weight wool/silk blend workhorse yarn. From Kirsten: “I adored Artisan from the moment you put a skein of it in my hands…It worked up beautifully, and the tweedy texture gives the design a lot of extra surface interest.”
The pattern is available in three sizes with finished measurements: 6 (6.75, 7.5)” (relaxed circumference) and 7 (8, 9)” long, meant to be worn with 1–3″ of negative ease. Shown in size S. One pair of mitts takes 123–200 yards (112–183 m) of Berroco Artisan.
The Astor Place Mitts are one of 10 patterns available in the Through the Loops 10 Years collection. The pattern will not be available separately until the end of the year. But Berroco has a special exclusive—one lucky reader of the blog will win two skeins of Artisan (enough to make the mitts in any size) and a PDF of the Astor Place Mitts pattern from Kirsten.
HOW TO ENTER: Leave a comment below telling us your favorite shade of Artisan yarn.
DETAILS: Must be 18 years or older to enter.
Comments must be posted by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, April 17, 2017. One winner will be chosen at random and announced on the blog next Monday, April 18.
I love Deep Pacific. Would love to knit those mitts. Thanks for the chance.
I would love to knit these mitts using celtic sea, a lovely hue!
Pick just one?!? In no particular order, I like Celtic Sea, Deep Pacific, and Norwegian Sea. They are all rich, luscious colors. Lovely pattern and lovely colors. I have never used this yarn and would love to!
OH! Favorite color is Norwegian Sea! Blue, blue, blue!!!
My favorite color is Maritime.
I love all the colours, it’s hard to pick just one. Scotia Sea is very sophisticated. Beautiful mitts, too! Thank you Berroco and Kristen!
Maritime is gorgeous, love saturated colours!
I like all of the colors, but Ocean Floor appeals to me for these mitts.
maritime
Maritime us my favorite, but they are all amazing! Fabulous yarn!
I would choose Pacific Ocean. I use fingerless mitts often and would be happy to have a couple skeins of lovely yarn to knit them up
I love Atlantic Coast – it’s such a beautiful soft gold/cream! But really, they’re all gorgeous.
Ocean floor is gorgeous — I’m a sucker for a beautiful yellow
All the Artisan yarns are beautiful, but my favorite is definitely Maritime. I love jewel tones. Thanks for the chance to win!
Gulf of Maine is my favorite.
Ocean Floor. reminds me of sunflowers and bees and summer. After the long winter, this color is yummy!
The Berroco Artisan colours are all beautiful, but I think I like Sargasso the best.
Too hard to choose! Deep Pacific…yep, I’ll go with that…
Recently, I found I love knitting mitts. These look warm and wonderful.
The colors are all beautiful but for these mitts I think I’d like the Scotia Sea.
Loving the Deep Pacific!
What a marriage of yarn and pattern. gulf of Maine would be perfect! Everything Kristin Kapur does is beautiful, thank you for the chance!
I choose Norwegian sea!
What a beautiful yarn … lovely colors. If I have to pick just ONE … Maritime.
I think Celtic Sea is my favorite–that being said,they are all lovely colors!
A favorite!? I can’t choose just one… I love the Biscay and Sargasso.
I love neutral colours, so simple and natural. Atlantic coast 6003 of the berrocco Artisan would definitely be my pick for those mitts. I love the quality of berrocco yarn, and make many trips to my favourite little yarn shop to buy it 🙂
It’s very hard to choose just one from Deep Pacific, Maritime, or Norwegian Sea. They are all so beautiful!
Like many before I like several different colors, but Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Maine call to me more.
Ocean Floor! I recently moved to the North Oregon coast and Ocean Floor is also the color of the winter beach grass that lines the path to the beach…love
I’m loving that “Norwegian Sea”, “Maritime” is gorgeous too!
All beautiful colors, but my favorite is maritime.
oh what lovely blue mitts! I would choose the same blue that Kristen used, Deep Pacific, though in Berroco’s site it looks more gray. Blue please!
I think all the colorways are great. But Gulf of Maine would go with everything!
It is a tough call, but I am going to have to go with Atlantic Coast, followed closely by Deep Pacific. But, actually there isn’t a bad color in the bunch.
I’ve been so into blues lately, and Norwegian Sea is the perfect one! All the colorways are so beautiful.
Really hard to choose a favorite! I think it would have to be Sargasso.
🙂 Linda
Celtic Sea is calling my name!
I’m always looking for a simple but stylish pattern for fingerless mitts – love this one.
Tough choice but I would pick Sargasso!
Maritime would go nicely with my Black leather jacket.
I love the “old gold” colors in Ocean Floor. Thanks for offering the giveaway and love reading the blog!
I so love through the loops site. My color would be Gulf of Maine.( hard to choose as many call my name).
Ooh, I’m loving Maritime, but it was tough to choose.
That was hard to decide, but I’ve chosen Deep Pacific.
I like them all, but Deep Pacific is really lovely.
love all the colors. Scotia Sea would be very pretty.
They’re all so pretty, but I guess if I HAVE to choose, it would be Maritime!
I love the Celtic Sea.
Celtic Sea because I love green, but I really like all of them.
I love all the shades, but Martime is really speaking to me.
I love Celtic Sea. Two years ago I led a women’s celtic pilgrimage, walking in the steps of St Cuthbert from Melrose in Scotland to Holy Island (Lindisfarne) in northern England. I commissioned a yarn colorway from Eden Cottage to mark the hike, but neglected the wonderful colors of the sea which we saw as we came over the hills after 60 miles of walking.
Sargasso .. such a beautiful colour, shades of blackberry and cream ..yum yum yum. I would love the chance to knit with it, as we don’t have Berroco yarn in the world where I live.
Such a tough choice as the colors are truly lovely. But my favorite is Maritime. And Celtic Sea is my second.
Oh such a hard choice to make. Ocean Floor for a great pop of color
It’s such a hard choice, but I would have to go with Maritime.
Hard to choose only one, but I’ll say Norwegian Sea for its lovely deep blue shade.
I would happily knit any of the colors. I love the color variations you find in tweedy yarn. My favorite, by a slim margin, is Celtic Sea closely followed by Norwegian Sea. I love green, I love blue, and I especially love bluey-greens!
Hard to choose just one. Gulf of Maine would be my first choice. Love the pattern.
Sargasso gets my vote – – many are beautiful but if I HAVE to choose one – – Sargasso!!
I love Biscay. It would be perfect for my daughter-in-law
Norwegian Sea, although Sargasso is a close second, as is Celtic Sea. Thanks for the chance to win!
Favorite at the moment is Maritime…
Hard choice! I think Maritime, maybe.
Celtic Sea! Hard to choose though, they’re all beautiful!
not an easy decision! LOL! I think Celtic Sea
Norwegian Sea
So many beautiful colors, but my favorite is Maritime 🙂
Celtic Sea or Deep Pacific are beauties for me
Maritime is such a lovely versatile color for a pair of mitts!
I love the rich shades of Norwegian Sea. All the colors are lovely!
Love the maritime colorway. Those mitts are lovely.
Norwegian Sea is my favorite–thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
They’re all beautiful – I would chose Norwegian Sea.
Norwegian Sea! Yummy!!!
I love the Maritime colored one the best.
Love Norwegian Sea blue!
Sargasso!
Norwegian Sea is the perfect multi-tasking color for me. Those mitts are awesome!
It has to be Biscay! What a beautiful yarn!
I am intrigued with Scotia Sea.
I’m usually not into green, but celtic sea is calling me
Maritime is my favorite, but it was hard to chose one 🙂
Ocean Floor is just gorgeous!
So hard to choose just one! I finally decided Astor Place would be lovely done up in Atlantic Coast.
So many gorgeous shades, but I think Celtic Sea would have to be my favourite. Thanks for the chance of winning 🙂
Beautiful yarn!! I think Sargasso is my favorite. Thanks for the chance to win.
Love the sargasso. The depth and variety of color is lovely.
I love Ocean Floor probably because I am a sucker for yellow!!
Biscay is a yummy color. And I think it would really show of the cables in the mitts.
I like so many of the colors. There is a depth to the color that speaks to me. Gulf of Maine is one of my favorites. One… 🙂
I love Sargasso because of the slight variegated tone of purple will highlight the stitch pattern very nicely!
I am totally digging Ocean Floor!
I love Celtic Sea (and Norwegian Sea and Sargasso and ALL of them)!
Norwegian seas is my favorite
So many choices! If I had to pick one, I would pick Celtic Sea, though Norwegian Sea and Maritime are right up there as well.
Biscay
Deep Pacific is my favorite – love me a denim!
Sargasso. Sargasso….it must be Sargasso. This is the exact color of my Hydrangea bush as some of the flowers are just blooming and a few are starting to fade. My absolute favorite shade of dusty purple. I would love to see the mitts in Sargasso! Thank you 🙂
Hi Sherry! You’ve won the giveaway—please email me at apalmer at berroco.com so we can get your yarn and pattern to you!
I am thrilled! Thank you so much. What a fantastic message to receive on Monday! 🙂
I love the celtic green
The colors are all lovely, but I keep coming back to Gulf of Maine—a very intriguing neutral.
Maritime is my favorite,
Ocean floor looks like a fun color!
Scotia Sea is a lovely shade and is perfect as I live in Nova Scotia
I knit Memphe (hat) in Norwegian Sea so that would be terrific. Great yarn!
Gorgeous yarn! I love the Ocean Floor yellow!
The Biscay is soooo pretty, but so is the celtic sea. 🙂
I love the Sargasso and the Gulf of Maine. I think those colors would go together wonderfully.
Golf of Maine and almost all other colours too
This is one of those times it’s easier to choose a least favorite – they are all so gorgeous. Sargasso is what I’d like to knit with next.
All beautiful colors, but Scotia Sea is calling to me today
Gulf of Maine is gorgeous!
OHHH – I think that its a tie between Maritime and Norwegian Sea. Either one of those would make killer mitts. Thanks for this great opportunity.
Biscay
Celtic Sea calls to me!
I think my favourite is Deep Pacific.
I love Ocean Floor, gorgeous! Thanks for the chance to win!
Deep Pacific, with it’s grayish green blue tones. Lovely.
Biscay speaks to me. Would LOVE to knit these decadent little mitts!!!!
Norweigan Sea is my favorite
The color Maritime resonates with me!
Maritime
Hard to choose! Maybe Deep Pacific.
I like the sargasso. Thank you. Love all the yarns you make.
I’m loving the Maritime shade ….but in reality, they all look amazing!!
Biscay is my first choice of favorite, but Sargasso is running a close second!
Norwegian Sea. Absolutely. And the Astor Place mitts are gorgeous.
hard to pick a favorite but I guess its deep pacific
Maritime is my favorite!
My favorite Berroco Artisan is Norwegian Sea. Beautiful! Although Ocean Floor is a close second. Thank you.
I’d love to make these in the Maritime colorway! I made a hat with this yarn and the gradient was beautiful.
I love Maritime!!
I would love them in meritme
I can’t pick a color because your link isn’t working for me & I can’t get the yarn to pull up on your site! It’s beautiful, though, & Kirsten’s patterns are always a pleasure to knit!
Celtic Sea! (With Maritime a close second)
I adore the biscay, the sargasso is a favorite too
I love the both Norwegian Sea colorway for the mitts. However, so many of the colors are beautiful.
Deep Pacific!