Fingerless Mittens, Take One

Of all the things I knit, I keep coming back to fingerless mittens. (Fingerless gloves? Whatever. You know what I mean.) Until my two most recent projects, I've always followed some pattern. These ones, though, I just sort of started knitting without much plan. I had some stash to use up - who doesn't?! - and didn't even pay attention to weight of yarn, which was maybe not my brightest decision ever. (Scroll to the bottom for a basic pattern).

So. Remember those? I started working on them last January (aka a YEAR ago), and actually finished them in October, and just haven't gotten 'round to taking blog photos. (See my resolutions from last post!) For once, finished even meant blocked and everything, but alas, I am a bad blogger.

So this is the finished product. There are a few things that I would do differently, but all in all, I am pretty durn pleased with them. They were designed with a man's hands in mind, but it turned out they were a sweater-curse-project, and he was out-of-picture by the time I finished the first one. I cast on 36 stitches, which was probably somewhere between 4-6 stitches too many, and then when I bound off the thumb, I (for reasons I no longer remember) added 3 stitches, for a final stitch count of 39. That was a bad decision; I don't recommend it. I also ended up frogging and re-knitting the second mitt at least 3 times to get it to match the first. That was a huge bummer. 

I love the stripes. I worked really hard to do jog-less strips, and although the jog-less stripe point is not visible here, it actually worked really well. Because I didn't know yarn weights, I ended up doing 3 rows of green for 2 rows of grey; I think the grey is a bulky while the green is an aran. Embarrassingly,  I do not remember purchasing the yarn, and really truly don't know who made them. The green MAY be a Rowan yarn of some kind, but I just have a kind of feeling that's the case.

You can download a .pdf of the pattern here. I have edited the pattern to reflect what I learned while knitting these up! Please post any pattern questions, comments, problems in the comments of this post.