Mini Mittens
Posted: November 21, 2024 Filed under: cricut, Echidna Studios, mittens, my designs, ski lodge embossing folder, Spellbinders | Tags: cricut, Echidna Studios, Penny Black stamps, Spellbinders 9 Comments
I do like an alliterative title but I restrained myself from calling this post Many Mini Mittens! I designed these mittens and accessories as cutting files for the cricut and I’m having so much fun with them. The Mittens digital stamp & cut-file set is available in the Echidna Studios etsy store. When I taught my bookish Christmas card class recently I had a cool stocking to cut from vintage papers but no mittens. To begin with I just designed the mitt and the cuff but I couldn’t stop so now the digital set has a heart, a poinsettia, diamond pattern, a zig-zag pattern, a snowflake, two cuffs and a little button. The buttons are too sweet.
This colourful card started as an experiment to see how small the cricut would cut the mitts without tearing them. These little mitts are 1¼” in length; everything else is obviously smaller and cut just fine.
I had fun arranging the elements on the mittens so there wasn’t too much of one colour or repetition of the same coloured patterns. I did create them in pairs because who wants a whole bunch of unmatched mitts? I’ve experienced that in our own mitt basket – why so many right mitts and no left mitts?!
And because I couldn’t stop I cut some matching pairs the same size but using linen textured pink and burgandy cardstocks. I used a clear wink of stella brush pen to make all the burgandy bits sparkle but as I write this I see it didn’t show in the photo. Trust me it adds to the cuteness. ( I had forgotten about my wink of stella pens)
For both cards I used Spellbinders ‘ski lodge’ embossing folder to make a background because ❄! I found suitable Penny Black sentiments from the ‘Merry Up‘ set. Come back tomorrow and I will share the larger, knitted mitten cards I also made with this digital set.
Heather Telford 
Too cute.
Thanks Mimi, I am having fun with them. It’s so nice to hear from you.
What fun and colourful cards Heather, and the cut files are a great idea, and I’m sure that stamped they would look wonderful too. x
You make me wish I had a Cricut! Love the mitten idea and it’s close to my heart. We learned to make mis-matched mittens from old wool sweaters, color coordinated of course so this just struck my eye. Also lined with Polartec for the best and warmest mittens you will ever wear. The felt is perfect on these and love the bright fun colors. So take a second look at those unmatched ones you have..
If you’d like to see the mittens, check out baabaazuzu. I refrained from including a link just in case it’s rejected.
I checked out the link Nancy and the Babazuzu mitts are beautiful. I love the fact they are different but co-ordinated. I have a similar pair made from upcycled fleece by a local maker, all in blues.
Now you have inspired me to cut some more mittens on the cricut mismatched but still matchy-matchy in colour!
Those are definitely addictive and so fun. And Warm if using polartec and wool!
they look great, will your cut files work with a scan’n’cut, please? Digitising stamps and cut files is such a great way for me to buy stuff from UK!
Hi Janet,
The cut files will come in 4 different formats, some of which will work on the scan n cut.
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