mitts

I decided to try the Fresco Fair Isle Mitts from the Fall 2008 Interweave Knits. I had some leftover Zitron Trekking XXL yarn from a pair of socks I made and a couple of balls of Jojoland Melody that I thought would be complementary, both with enough variation to make using only two colors instead of the 5 the pattern called for a possibility. I used two circulars (2.75 mm) for the ribbing which I made shorter than the pattern suggested and two circulars (3.00 mm) for the body.

Here's a picture of the back of the mitt:

And here's a picture of the palm of the mitt:

The pattern called for using 3.25 mm needles for the body and I'm sure it would have made a difference. As you can possibly see by this next picture, the mitt turned out quite a bit smaller than expected:

These are really more child sized than adult. I will have to try again maybe increasing both the needle size and the length.

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Well, thanks to the blizzard I have finished the other mitt:

As you can see, the color came out quite a bit different from the first mitt. That's what happens when you use variegated yarn and in such small quantities that you don't really see where the color changes occur. Altogether, these mitts only took 21 grams of fingering weight yarn. But maybe the difference in color will help my granddaughter tell the right from the left more easily.