Navy mitts: My father saw the mitts I made for Willow and asked for his own pair. Even though I’ve knit lots of these lately, I was more than happy to oblige. His choice of colour!

Black mitts: And then I had another request from my husband, JSR. Again, his choice of colour :)

For both of these pairs, I used a cable cast on (one of my usual favourites) and a new-to-me bind off I found on YouTube, Lori’s Twisty Bind Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWS77BKk5NQ

I love how this bind off “accordions” along with the ribbing, which is something most of the stretchy bind offs don’t do. I did have to go down a needle size to make it look neat and not loopy, but even with that it is significantly stretchy, and I’m definitely going to try it on my next toe-up sock.