Mitten season

It's that time of year again where I become obsessed with finding a good fingerless mitten pattern. My perennial search uncovered this pattern recently, 'Camp out fingerless mitts', and I was spurred on by the photos accompanying the pattern. I used Noro Silk Garden Lite which is a combination of silk, mohair and lambswool, and comes in tempting colour spectrums. I have a bunch of it lying around from another half complete project....but that's another story.

The pattern was slightly challenging and fiddly, and my end result looked sloppy and holey compared with pictures. The thing that attracted me to this pattern was the 2 parts knitted in different orientations and grafted together. The thumb however, was lacking, and when I tried it on and imagined 5 degree temperatures, I decided a pattern with more thumb coverage would be better. A good try.