Pattern: Mitered Mittens from EZ’s Knitter’s Almanac
Yarn: Some delicious handspun I bought years and year ago
Needles: US5
A very, very long time ago (2004?) I bought some handspun at a yarn expo. About 200 yards of not-quite-aran weight yarn. It is purpley, blue, & cranberry and destined for this pattern for forever. I don’t know why I didn’t cast on sooner probably because six years ago pithy instructions intimidated me and the lack of needle guidance REALLY intimidated me. Now I am pretty confident with what gauge I will get with what needle and certain weight yarn….particularly heavy worsted. 
Hello? Lamb’s Pride Worsted.
Hello? Lamb’s Pride Worsted. The pithy instructions are not that pithy since it is an easy garment. The only thing I didn’t do was knit all the way to the top then snip a stitch to unravel for a thumb hole to pick up. Call me a pansy, but I opted to knit some waste yarn on seven stitches to designate a thumb hole then later took out the waste yarn to knit the thumb. Worked out nicely and because of the miter, the lack of thumb gusset is not that uncomfortable.
I DID knit them at a smaller gauge than called for. I didn’t want largish mittens, but a closer fit so I could still help small children with their mittens or zip zippers. Overall, I really like these mittens and see them as being very practical for the month of February.
On a personal note, man are we sick. Usually this means the small children are lying around with fevers. Nope. Not this time. The adults are ill. Poor Terry has had a fever for five days now. Very nasty cough. We are off to the doctor this morning for him. Now I have been married to this guy for 13 years. He has NEVER been this sick. He was contemplating going to work because “I’ve never missed this many days of work” – can you say big, new project at work he’s behind on? I finally talked some reason into him that adults who have a 101 degree fever deserve to be at home despite having missed three days of work. I don’t have a fever so I am holding down the fort. The kids are bouncing off the walls.
