I am knitting this with the fingering yarn doubled. The wristlet is closely fitting, so it’s good I went for ribbing rather than cables on the interior wrist. Doing it as originally planned the sizing would have to be perfect as the cables aren’t giving.

Mods
I modified the pattern to have K2P2 ribbing at the ends, and I eliminated the cables on the inside wrist in favor of continuing the K2P2 ribbing up the wrist on the inside. I wanted these to hug Amy’s wrists and I was worried the cables would be lumpy.

Start

Started with K2P2 rib.
Then added these two set up rows before the main cable pattern.
Set up row:
Continue P2K2 in pattern for 12 stitches (to put the cast on join on the wrist interior). This is the new start of round.

1. P2 T3F T3B P2 T3F T3B P2 T3F T3B P2 (K2 P2)x4 T3F T3B.
2. Transfer the last purled stitch to the start of this round. Continue in pattern, knitting knit stitches and purling purl stitches.

Then go to main cable pattern.

Cable
I only wrapped the yarn in cable row 21 twice, since it is already double stranded.

End
At the top edge, I worked past the end and continued (as MizToolLady did) until cable pattern row 3 to get it to divide into my K2P2 rib. After the cable pattern completed, I followed this pattern to get the whole row back to K2P2 rib:

T3B T3F (P2K2)x4 P2 T3B T3F (this requires the first purled stitch from the next row).

Then 6 rounds of P2K2 rib to complete the mitt.

Afterthought Thumb
And instead of doing the waste yarn and first stitches of the main color yarn in pattern, I just knitted them, as the photo tutorial calls for. Much easier to pick up that way.

I also ended up with 18 stitches total - one more picked up at each end of the afterthought thumb - instead of the 17 described in the pattern.

New (to me) technique

• afterthought thumb, or EZ’s thumb trick

Cast-On - Long Tail
Bind-Off - Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off

Comments
I like the Toil and Trouble yarn - very soft, and the color is good for showing off the cable work. The aqua-gray colorway is also lovely - subtle.

I like the pattern, it’s appropriately ethereal and martial - perfect for Arwen. My only quibble is that the cabling is unforgiving stretch-wise and so the sizing needs to be close to perfect.

The doubled fingering makes a nice, thick fabric, perhaps a little narrower than a DK yarn (since the fingering yarns tend to stack and of course DK is cylindrical….).