Grandma's and Sister's Finished Mittens

I've never made mittens before, but this year I made 3 pairs which just seemed like a million, especially as I started in on the fourth fifth and sixth mittens. But I finally finished all of them, and I could not be more glad because it means I can be done with mittens for a while.

I finished my grandma's mittens a few days ago, and they've been sitting around waiting for me to post about them. I think they turned out great. They're the same size, and it's a good snug, but not tight, fit. 

They're such a pretty green, I know my grandma will love them. Green is her favorite color. And it will be the third knitted project I give to her that I made with her needles that she gave to me.

Then there are my sister's mittens. When I asked her what she wanted after it became apparent that the scarf was not going to work out, I was hoping she'd want gloves or fingerless mittens or a headband or a cowl or something else that I hadn't made. No. She wanted mittens.

Well, they're finally finished, and while the yarn looks great and the fit it great, there is one little problem: because I foolishly counted rounds and didn't measure or even compare sizes while I was making the mittens, the second mitten is a little longer than the first.

Maybe you can't really tell, and my sister did want it to be a little longer when I had her try on the first mitten, but I'll always know that they aren't quite right.

Still, all told, I think my mitten knitting was an overall success with my grandma's being the best. The others are fine, but both other pairs do contain some live and learn experiences.

 Happy knitting!

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.