Persnickety Mittens

For a while now I've wanted to combine a bright red with a light blue yarn. I'm happy with the colors, but not completely happy with the mittens otherwise. I think they are a bit too short, particularly the part between the cuff and thumb. Will take note of this and make sure in the future I add rows to mitten patterns that don't seem to have enough. My gauge in stranded knitting tends to turn out pretty tight, and I still haven't quite mastered the tensioning of the floats. Patterns, like the palm sides of these mittens, that repeatedly have the same amount of stitches of each color in a column are particularly troublesome tensioning wise. While trying to prevent too much tension with the second mitten I ended up with a larger mitten. Not a perfect project, but at least it was a learning experience.

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Old Forge

I wasn't too excited about my two skeins of Wollmeise Pure in Golden Pear until I figured out I would like that color in a blanket. It was my least favorite of my Wollmeise oranges whenever I thought of something I'd like to wear, but it turns out my color preference for decorational items is different. While the Graf Ratz and Golden Pear combination is not the most exciting, I like it for something I'm going to have lying on the couch. Since I knit this with a fingering weight yarn, it isn't exactly the same blanket-sized item as in the original pattern, but I'm often fine with something smaller for cover.

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