FO: Spring Mittens

Pattern: Improvised
Yarn: 1.5 balls of Noro Silk Garden, colour 279
Needles: 4.5 mm

Mittens! There’s no such thing as store-bought mittens that are the proper size for my shrimp hands; kids’ mittens aren’t wide enough and adult mittens are far too long. These, though, are pretty much a perfect fit, and therefore I’m keeping them, rather than letting them sneak out the door in someone else’s hands like my previous pairs of mittens.

Okay, so it’s April and far too warm for mittens. But in November, or even October, when I wake up to frost on the car and puddles turned to ice, I’ll be glad to have a pair finished and waiting.

The pattern’s more or less improvised, although I did use the thumb gusset instructions from Design 3 in Noro Designer Mini Knits. Cuffs were started with 2×2 twisted rib and tops were finished with paired decreases like sock toes; I also put in a few decreases on the arms to keep them snug around my wrists.

And I think my next project is going to be another pair of mitts, but fingering-weight and fingerless this time. I’m thinking about a pair of Della mitts (Rav link), or maybe taking Knitty’s Cachoeira sock pattern and turning it into mitts.

Time for a stash-dive, at any rate, to see what I can come up with as far as semi-solid sock yarn goes.