Mine
Needle: US 6 - 4.0 mm
Yarn: Wendy Norse Chunky
1.5 skeins = 109.7 meters (120.0 yards), 75 grams
Colorway 2705
Dye lot 9532
Color family: Blue
Started October 2012
Completed November 17 2012
Notes
This was a gigantic pain in my ass. I ended up frogging the second mitt back to the cuff I think three times (kept inexplicably screwing up the thumb) and it still ended up slightly weird. I can’t tell whether I did the pattern ‘wrong’ the first time, or whether I ended up failing to read the pattern correctly the second time.

M’s
Needle: US 6 - 4.0 mm
Yarn: Rico Creative Melange (Chunky)
Colorway White (001)
Yarn weight: Aran (8 wpi)
Notes
I took the basic pattern but changed it up a lot. M’s hands are about a women’s medium, so the original pattern would have been way too big. She also wanted a longer cuff that would tuck better with wrist-length sweaters. The only irregularity on this pattern is the way the pattern of ribs at the bottom is slightly disrupted by seaming it up the side, but they fit perfectly, so them’s the breaks.

The yarn’s very hard to photograph, but it’s a chunky variegated wool/acrylic yarn with a soft seashell sort of color.

The changes I made to the original pattern were:

CO 36 stitches
Work 22 rows 2x2 rib (starting with K2)

Thumb gore:
Work 4 rows St st
Row 1 (RS): K17, K1FB, K1FB, K17 (38sts)
Row 2 (WS): P all sts
Row 3 (RS): K18, pm, K1FB, K1FB, pm, K18 (40sts)
Row 4 (WS): P all sts, slipping markers as you reach them
Row 5 (RS): K18, sm, K1FB, K to last st before marker,
K1FB, sm, K18 (2sts increase)
Repeat rows 4 and 5 until 14sts sit between the markers.

Work 3 rows stocking stitch (this should start with a P row)
K to first marker and remove.
Work the next 14sts for 4 short rows stocking stitch then BO 14sts, remove second marker and K to end of the row.
Next Row (WS): P row, picking up 1 st at end of BO row
to P2tog (this should pull the gap closed left by the short
rows you’ve worked)
Next Row (RS): K16 (I think it’s 16 anyway), K2togFB, K18
Work 7 rows stocking stitch, BO, mattress seam

N’s
Needle: US 6 - 4.0 mm
Yarn: Robin Double Knit
0.5 skeins = 150.0 meters (164.0 yards), 50 grams
Black
Notes
These came together very quickly. As written, the pattern ends with 9 rows SS and BO; because I wanted the mitts to come up to the top of my palm and not roll, I changed it to 4 rows SS, 5 rows 2x2 rib (there’s a spare stitch in there that screws up the pattern a bit; I just fudged it) and BO.

S’s
Some random black and red DK. Transformers design is my heavily-modified design.

I’d release my version of the design, but it’s cursed.

This pair has been fraught with tribulations. The first (right) mitt came together well enough (or so I thought) if a bit small -- especially after knitting half a dozen variations on the original design -- and I set about knitting the left. After I’d bound off the left mitt, I realized I’d screwed up the pattern four rows into the Autobot and that they were dramatically different sizes. I attempted to just frog back to the mistake, failed, frogged back to the 4th row of ribbing and knit the left mitt for a second time, paying close attention to the pattern.

When the second attempt at the left turned out exactly the same as the first (albeit with small imperfections that I didn’t notice in time to fix), I realized I’d screwed up the very first time, and repeatedly headdesked. So I knit a fourth mitt, the right for a second time, with little time to actually do this before I was meant to gift them. Towards the end of the fourth, I realized I’d accidentally knit two extra rows at the top of the third, but I managed to get it finished and adequately matching.

The finished pair are slightly different sizes -- I don’t know why -- and they are significantly larger than any of the other mitts I knit from this pattern in either DK or chunky though not so large as to be unwearable. Not a single one of the mitts (except maybe the second, which I frogged, we’ll never know) is perfect or perfectly matching and I don’t know what Transformers god or wight I inadvertently angered, to wreak so much havoc on an otherwise simple endeavor.

(At least the receiver was delighted.)

E’s
Yarn: King Cole Pricewise Double Knitting, 13 Larkspur (Purple), Black
Notes
Pentacle is my own design.
Started December 2014
Completed December 22 2014

D’s
Yarn: Rico Design Fashion Highland Tweed Chunky
Weight: Worsted (9 wpi)
1 skein = 100.0 meters (109.4 yards), 50 grams
Colorway 001
Dye lot 164189
Color family: Natural/Undyed
Notes
CO 38 sts. Used some random orange DK yarn for 3 rows at the cuff so I didn’t run the risk of running very low on the tweed.
Forgot to take a photo before posting halfway around the world. Oops.

B’s
Yarn: Rico Design Fashion Highland Tweed Chunky
Weight: Aran (8 wpi)
1 skein = 100.0 meters (109.4 yards), 50 grams
Colorway 005
Dye lot 164186
Color family: Black
Notes
CO 38 sts, instead of 42. Worked the cuffs with a pair of #5, the rest in #6.
Very very short on yarn; had to seam this up with another color.
No photo.

Princess R’s
Yarn: Rico Design Creative Melange Glitz Chunky
1 skein = 99.7 meters (109.0 yards), 50 grams
Colorway 004
Dye lot 6724
Color family: Purple
Notes
No photo, but they turned out very nicely.

AD’s
Random free rainbow and black DK yarn!