Wine and Roses Mitts

Recently I've been making lots of small projects and it has been giving me great project completion satisfaction. So here we have another little project - some fingerless mitts for me!

I thought these would be good for summer here, but it doesn't look like summer is really on the way yet, as it snowed a bunch last week and is still trying to snow this morning, although the rain is winning the battle. I've been seeing pictures of the first flowers of the season from other Finnish blogs and am waiting for the day when I can post my pictures. :-|

Pattern: Wine and Roses Mitts by JoLene M. Treace, published in Interweave Knits Winter 2006.

Yarn Details: here's where things get a little hazy. I bought this yarn from ebay, it's 'vintage' and the labels are conspicuously missing such information as fibre content, length, weight, etc. But my guess is that it's 100% wool and it's cobweb weight. I've included a picture of it just in case somebody knows more about it than I do. It's so unbelievably fine that for this project, I had to use two strands doubled throughout.

Needles: 2.75mm bamboo dpns


These turned out slightly too big for my taste, so I felted them a teensy bit by hand and now I really like the size of them. I actually made a mistake in making them, though, as I put them down for about a month and when I picked them up again, I couldn't remember how many repeats of the hand chart I'd done. Long story short, they ended up with one less hand chart repeat and so they're a couple of centimetres shorter than the original pattern states. Personally, I don't think it makes that much difference.