At last they are done and up on Ravelry Fingerless Mitts Group as well as projects on Ravelry and here. I used the Noro yarn I'd bought at the end of March and it is just an odd sort of yarn in my mind. I'm not sure what all the hullabaloo is about over this yarn, but in the knitting world there are groups just for this yarn.
I started the mitts on one size needles and then took out 16 stitches on the palm side since I wanted the whole pattern to show on the one side. I still wasn't content with the fit after a few rows and just before the colors changed in the yarn, I switched to a smaller one for needles. A 2.75 in U. S. standards. They looked pretty odd on the needles, but I soldered on and when it was finished the fit was just right. Loose where I wanted them to be and slightly snug where I wanted them to be. So for once my lazy solution worked as usually this would be so obvious I'd have to rip it out and start over. I was glad I didn't have to. These mitts still haven't been washed or blocked, but here they are.
The colors in real life are closer to the enhanced photo at the top of the photos, so I hope you can see the difference. All of this is from the same yarn bundle and I knit them with the magic loop method two at a time. Used the skein inside for mitten one, and the outside of the other mitten. Therefore the different color sequence as well. Now to get caught up with my artist's journal and add the parts of the devotions that really spoke to me today.
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