Pattern: Choose Your Own Adventure Mittens by Alison GriffithÂ
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?
Perfectly striped indeed! And yes, they look cool, and comfortable, and warm. I hear you about the oven mittens, the only pair I have in worsted feel just like that and I cannot seem to be able to do anything with them. I should have a pair in fingering too.
Love your mittens! That stripy yarn looks so good! I would have thought only socks by looking at it but your mittens are definitely cool 😉
Rocking mitts. Great colors, great photos (always!), and I agree it’s much easier to function with the lighter yarn weight.
I hope you are well!
You’ve converted me. I’ve got a pair of self striping fingering weight mitts that I never finished knitting because I was all “I’m never going to wear these anyways, fingering weight mitts are impractical right?” So pleased to hear that I was wrong about that. Why hide that gorgeous yarn on your feet!?
They are GORGEOUS Julie!
I saw your sneak peek on Instagram last night and was hoping to find them here today in all their full glory :-)))
The yarn colors would be my first choice as well. Like you, I always thing “woolly” and WARM when I knit mittens but I absolutely LOVE the look of these fingering weight mittens. I will definitely do this.
Happy Day to You and Your Sweet Family,
Danette
Ooh, I love those stripy mittens! I’ve been meaning to make a fingering-weight pair of mittens for ages, but I’ve never gotten around to them-I have one pair of full mittens, and they’re DK weight, so I’d like some more flexibility, especially given my abundance of fingerless mitts.
These are lovely! 😀 I’ve never been a fan of mittens, because of the lack of fingers, but I suppose lightweight ones would solve the problem of feeling like you have no use of your fingers at all! My Mister has been asking me for fingerless gloves for a while now (though I’m not sure he would wear them, but he seems to think he would) and this pattern would be pretty darn close to what he wants (with a shorter cuff, of course, because, well, he’s a guy like that xD ). And I agree with Tanis above, in that the beautiful sock yarn should not, well, only be for socks! 😀
Love!
So gorgeous! I love that bright blue.
Great outcome on these mittens. I like how they look snug on your hands. Wonderful styling and love your coat. And of course, you do look good!
Lovely mittens, Julie! And your FO photo shoots are always so inspiring!
What gorgeous photos Julie! You look terrific and I love those mittens.
Those are great mittens. The colours are very nice. You’re right … They do look cool!
I’m a huge fan of workhorse patterns that are customizable. And your mitts are super-adorable. Well done!
So cute!
Love that colourway and how well it coordinates with your black jacket and grey cowl. Mittens knitted with lighter weight yarns make a lot of sense for the milder climate down here in Maryland. Will have to add this pattern to the loooong to-knit list!