Pattern: Choose Your Own Adventure Mittens by Alison Griffith
Yarn: Biscotte Yarns in ‘Butterfly Wings’ colourway
Is there anything better than a simple stockinette project with a self-striping yarn you adore? I love the high contrast in this colourway, it’s sort of urban and a bit edgy to me.
This pattern was really easy to follow, and gave options at every turn. I would knit this again- a nice, basic workhorse pattern that allows for lots of customization and would be a good blank template if you wanted to experiment with your own tweaks and designs.
I loved working with this yarn, and since the mitts only took half of the generous skein, I’m already itching to find another project of the other half of the skein. I would happily knit with this yarn any day of the week.
Let’s talk a minute about simple fingering weight mittens, of which this is my first pair. I normally do fingering weight fingerless mitts, and full mittens in heaver yarns, like worsted or bulky. After all full mittens mean it’s crazy cold outside and you need all the warm in the woolly world, right? Wrong! I have been wrong all these years!
Turns out that fingerless mitts are fantastic for days that are cold, but not crazy cold. It’s been a few degrees above freezing lately, so they are just right. And you can still hold things in your hand and feel like you have a grip. I tend to wear mittens when I drive in the winter (that steering wheel is c-c-c-cold!) and now I don’t feel like I’m basically driving with oven mitts on. I suppose you shouldn’t drive with oven mitts on anyway.
I love my thick mitts, and one a really cold day, I need all the woolly. But these feel really cool. Who knew mittens could be cool?
