Here's my pair of fingerless mitts!















Necessary information:
Yarn: Lion Brand's discontinued Cotton-Ease in Popsical Blue
Needles: Bryspun DPNs in US 8
Pattern: Cool Little Mittlets, purchased from The Elegant Ewe in Concrd, NH, designed by Kelly Bridges
Date Started: Oct. 17
Date Finished: Oct. Oct. 20

So, I had started these earlier and kept ripping them out. I just couldn't get the M1l/M1R to look right. Well, after I re-read theinstructions I finally got them to look right. And it's weird that I couldn't get the M1l/M1R to look right as I had made 2 pair of these last Spring!

Mods:
The yarn, obviously. I made these to keep my hands warm both at work (data entry is horrid kids) and while knitting. Warm hands = less damage. Don't believe me? Watch the World Series and see how the pitchers don jackets when their team is batting (offensive) instead of fielding (defensive). I already have 2 pairs of these (1 wool, 1 wool-blend) that I made last year so it was time for a pair for inside work.

The other mod I made is the # of stitches used for the thumb and hand after placing thumb stitches on waste yarn. The pattern states to uses 14 + 2 (picked up) stitches for the thumb. I find that that still leaves loads of holes, so instead I was able to PU 7(!) on each mitt, after getting all 21 stitches on needles, I then decreased down to 12 and went on form there. The hand says you're supposed to have 32 + 2 (picked up) for the hand after placing thumb stitches on waste yarn. I have long, thin hands and 34 stitches makes the mitts too wide. So instead I didn't PU an stitches, and instead of using just the 32, I decreased the # by 2 stitches and only used 30 stitches. The mitts are neither too tight nor too loose.

Since I finally got it all straightened out with the increasing, I already has cast-on for another pair. This new pair is also in Cotton-Ease, but in Orangeade! This pair will probably reside permanently in my knitting bag so I don't have to keep up with making sure I have the blue pair with me at all times. I also have wool set aside for when it gets a smidge cooler to make another pair -- and that pair I will add puff paint to the palm so I can drive with them on as well.

Aside from the mitts I don't have any other knitting news. I do have a correction to make, my SP 6 sent me 3 hanks of the Knitpicks laceweight, not 2. I just made an error when I wrote up that entry and she sent me 3 and I have all 3 and it is such glorious stuff. Yarn = Happy Heather!!!!!