your mittens.

Your Mittens

Materials:

approximately 120-150 yards worsted weight wool
size 6US needles for your preferred method of knitting in the round
(or whatever size you need to get gauge)
stitch holder or scrap yarn
stitch markers

Gauge:
20 sts and 28 rows = 4 inches in st. stitch
Sized for women, easily adaptable by using different yarn weights/needle sizes.

Go!:
Cast on 32 sts., join in round without twisting stitches.
Knit 1x1 rib for approximately 3". Switch to stockinette st. for 3 rows.
Begin Gusset:
Row 1: K12, pm, M1, K2, M1, pm, K to end.
Rows 2&3: Knit.
Row 4: K to m, M1, K4, M1, K to end.
Rows 5&6: Knit.
Repeat as established: Increasing every third round. The number of stitches between M1s will increase by 2 for each increase round. Final gusset increase round will be:
K to m, M1, K12, M1, K to end.
Knit 5 rounds plain.
Knit 12 sts, remove marker. K1, put 14 sts. on holder, K to end. (32 sts. on needles + 14 sts. on holder.
Knit in stockinette stitch until the mitten reaches the tip of your index finger. Now you will begin shaping the top of the mitten.
Shaping:
Row 1: K1, SSK, K10, K2tog, K2, SSK, K10, K2tog, K1. (28 sts.)
Row 2: K1, SSK, K8, K2tog, K2, SSK, K8, Ktog, K1. (24 sts.)
Continue as established: decreasing the number of knit stitches between decreases by 2 each round. Final decrease round will be:
K1, SSK, K2tog, K2, SSP, K2tog, K1. (8 sts.) Cut yarn and draw through final stitches.
Thumb:
Place stitches on needles. From body of mitten, on left side of thumb sts., pick up one stitch and SSK with first stitch of round. Knit across thumb stitches; on final stitch pick up one stitch from right side of mitten body and K2tog with final stitch of round. place marker between these stitches. (14 thumb stitches)
Work in stockinette until half of thumbnail is covered by thumb.
Thumb Decreases:
Row 1:  (K2tog, K1) 4 times, K2.
Row 2: (K2tog) 5times.
Row 3: (K2tog) twice. Cut yarn and draw through remaining stitches.

Make two mittens, weave in ends. Block if desired and wear with joy.

isn't it?

Months, months, months.

Jon is home now, Odin is home too.
Jon's on the hunt-for-a-job quest and has an interview in Kalamazoo next week... 'Cause we're moving back to MI for Odin for school.
I finally updated my pics on Ravelry after SEVERAL MONTHS of just adding projects with no images. I hate that. It was 70+ degrees outside today, so we went on a picnic in the woods and then lazed about outside for awhile.
Working on writing up patterns for all of my designs, so hopefully I can get a few of them worked out tomorrow. I still need images of one FO and to find notes I've taken for a mitten and. Ugh, and. That's all I've got.
So away I go.