This pattern starts with the entrelac panel, two of which I found used slightly less than half of one skein of the Serenity Garden yarn, so I went ahead and made four and chose the two best matched for this pair of mitts. I’ll use the other two for a second pair, which I am seriously considering making with full fingers.

I made a few modifications to the construction of these mitts. Rather than bind off the palm portion, seaming (leaving the hole for the thumb) and then picking up stitches for the thumb, I left the stitches live. I then picked up and knit the same number of stitches on the opposite side of the entrelac panel, worked one purl row and one knit row, and then grafted the two sets of live stitches with Kitchener stitch placing the thumb stitches on waste yarn. (I grafted 10 stitches at the top of the mitt, 6 at the bottom, and left 14 live stitches on each needle in the middle for the thumb.) Then when working the thumb I placed those 28 stitches on my circular needle and picked up one more stitch at each end for the total of 30 thumb stitches. This eliminates the seam on the palm side of the thumb. I felt the thumb was rather large, especially compared to the snug fit of the other fingers, so I decreased an additional 4 stitches several rows after the round of thumb decreases included in the pattern. I also added one more stitch to the ribbing section so as to begin and end the ribbing with a knit stitch.

These mitts were made on a US size 3 circular needle and size 3 double points. I used a US size 4 to bind off, and used Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off for the ribbing.