Final Thoughts:

• This is a terrific pattern. So clear, so well written, so enjoyable and the fit is terrific. The details are beautiful AND the pattern is free. It’s one of those patterns that looks a bit complex but it’s very workable. You can totally make these mitts in a weekend. Great gift knit.

• Were I to make these for myself again, I’d use a true worsted yarn with a US4 (at least to start with) to get a slightly bigger / taller mitt. My hands are fairly large and, at my smaller gauge, using a slightly thinner yarn than recommended, these fit me snugly (pre-blocking).

• Note that the depth of the wrist and hand portion (including thumb gusset) is quite long - in a good way - which is not the case with the upper mitt, IMO. But my gauge was short (and having to stay within the confines of a cable pattern repeat was a limiter).

• I’ve now made myself a set (all use the same colour of Woolfolk yarn): these gloves, Hipster hat and Comfort Zone poncho

Knitting notes

• Held this fingering yarn double for these mitts…

• After casting on in US4, and finding it too large in the wrist, I went down to US3. I wanted a denser fabric for warmth and durability.

How I managed my gauge:

• My row gauge (unblocked) on US3 is 25st in 4”. At my gauge, I’ll need to knit the hand to ~20% longer than instructed - but I’ll also have to stay within the 12R repeat of Chart A. At my gauge, I’m 0.5” shorter on every 12R repeat than if I were knitting to gauge. Over 3 rounds (which aligns with being above the thumb segment), that would make my glove 1.5” shorter than instructed.

• Moreover, the decrease segment is written to provide 2” of length (10R at 5R per inch gauge as instructed) vs 1.6” at my gauge (6.25R per inch) so here again, I may want to add in an extra 0.5” lost in this segment at my gauge.

• 2” at my gauge is 12R - so I imagine I’ll need to do one additional repeat. BUT It doesn’t seem that my hand will need that much length. I’ll try as I go. Update: I didn’t do the extra 12R repeat. I think that would have made these too big and less warm. I’m going to have to block assertively though (and fortunately the yarn has adequate give).

• Note to self: Chart 2 decreases start on R5 of the third repeat so I started the decreases as of R5 of the 5th / final repeat.

Blocking: I pin blocked the mitts to 10.5” full length with 5.25” above the thumb crease where it meets the mitt. Pinned thumb to 2.25” in length (from upper mitt join to tip).