Shortpaper Mitts

I made a pair of Eunny's Endpaper Mitts for my bro as a Christmas present last year, and here we have another pair, this time for mum, on request.


Pattern: Enpaper Mitts by Eunny Jang, free on See Eunny Knit! (her old blogsite, where lots of other delicious goodies can be found)
Yarn details:

• Garnstudio Drops Alpaca
• 100% Alpaca
• 50gr = 180m
• colour #100 (white) and #6347 (purple)
• about 15gr of white used and about 10gr of the purple
  

Needles: 2mm for cuffs and 3mm for mitt (dpns this time, no ultra short circular)

Mum asked me to make her these for the the bus trip to work, as it's sometimes cold and she's tired of taking her glove off every time she wants to turn a page in her book. Also, her office suffers from the same disorder as seemingly every other office in Australia: hyperairconditionitis. It's silly how sometimes the temperature outside reaches levels at which the road starts to melt (I mean that most literally), and yet inside one needs a shawl, slippers and of course a pair of fingerless mitts.

She didn't want them to be as long as the pattern states, so I just made 20 rounds of the ribbing for the cuff and then launched straight into chart B. Other than that, it was pretty plain sailing all the way with these. I still love the way the kitchener cast off looks and I'm very glad that I took the time to do it, as the edge looks professional and is strong and stretchy.

There so nice a soft that I'm a bit sad to have to post them away, but I know they're going to a good home, just in time for the 'winter' (scoff) to start in Aus. Enjoy, mum!