Cable & Twist mitts fini!

I finished the pair of Cable &Twist mitts today. I love these! Sorry for the bad picture. It's really hard to get a picture of both your hands using the auto-timer setting on a camera!

I mentioned the pattern source for this in a previous post, so pardon the reptition, but here goes:

Pattern: Cable & Twist Mitts from Fearless Fibers (available as a kit or individual pattern)

Yarn: Fearless Fibers Superwash Merino in Sportweight, Imagine color

Needles: Crystal Palace Bamboo DPNs, 3.0mm, US size 2.5 (I thought I grabbed the US3 needles, but I missed -- the fit is good, though)


Modifications: Yep, I made a couple.

The simple one first. At the completion of the final cabled stitch repeat, the pattern says to decrease one stitch in the middle using a K2tog (right-leaning). Because it's in the center, I wanted a more centered look. The center cable has nine stitches. I slipped stitch four over stitch five to do the decrease. There are lots of other ways to do it, but that's what I chose and I like how it looks.

The major modification is that I added half-fingers instead of leaving the end completely open. The pattern has 50 stitches around, so I divided the stitches onto two needles, with the cable and twist pattern centered on one and then did a little math to divide for the fingers. Once I had the division of stitches set up, I knit six rows of 1x1 ribbing for each half finger.

Finally, the pattern calls for the thumb to be knit in stockinette all the way up. I changed the last four rows to 1x1 ribbing to match better with the fingers and keep it from rolling.

These are very warm and I love the color.

Plus, it's nice to have something done for me after all that Christmas knitting. :)

There are more WIPs coming soon. I started a scarf for my sister in the Palindrome pattern. It's a very simple, but effective reversible cable and I like how it's going. Great portable knitting, too.

And of course, the Noro Clapotis is still coming along. It's sort of my fallback project, I guess. I want to finish it before I cast on for Mr. Greenjeans, though.