Sister's Scarf into Sister's Mittens

After deciding that I wasn't going to make my sister a scarf to match her headband, I couldn't decide on what I did want to make her, so I just asked her what she wanted from choices including a cowl, an infinity scarf, and fingerless gloves, possibly with the mitten topper, in other words, things I haven't made before. Much to my chagrin, she wanted mittens. Not even gloves. Mittens. Which makes her mittens the third pair I've started this year and ever. Not that they're hard or anything; it's just that I'm getting a little sick of knitting mittens.

I thought about looking for another pattern so at least there's some variation, but then I decided against it. I want to colors of the yarn to be visible, so I'm not going to work with multiple colors, and I don't want to make patterns all over the hands because I want to mittens to be comfortable and it just seems like a cable or something up the back of the hand would be annoying.

I made a fair bit of progress yesterday. This is the same pattern I've used for all of my other mittens. This is the women's size. The cuff is 25 rounds and the hand up to where the thumb gusset will start is 20 rounds. That's how far this mitten is along: up to where the thumb gusset will start. I think this is a good size so far, and I do like using the bigger needles better than the smaller needles I'm using in my grandmother's mittens.

Happy knitting!

PS. I am going to try to start taking pictures using boyfriend's smart phone because i can't take much more of this webcam.