CO 32
Cuff is 2x2 ribbing -- for 16 rows
YARN NOTES: I’m not entirely happy with the cotton blend for this project. In the future, I would use a worsted weight wool or wool blend for the absorbency, insulation, and resiliency (bounce-backiness). While I love the Shine itself, this is not the best application for it. I think KP Swish would be better.

15 November Update: Finished the first glove! Boy, does this project have a lot of fiddling to take care of! The knitting part takes almost so time at all… It’s just all of the other things that are so painstaking.

I’m not positive that this is going to be the best fit for her -- it fits me, and she’s just a kid. But she loves this color of yarn and she’s been trying it on and loving it, so I’m sticking with it. The next one may be distinctly smaller. I’m not concerned with making them perfectly symmetrical.

So, hey! I’ve made a convertible fingerless convertible mitt now! I’m so impressed with myself. :-D

18 November update: O. M. G. The sun is up and it’s only 27º out! It’s not even supposed to get above 34º today. Just the thought of it makes me want to go back to bed, curl up under the covers and knit a gazillion more things to keep us all warm. Seriously, this is JANUARY weather already.

(And yeah, I kinda feel like a wimp, having seen all the pix of people who got snow before Halloween and are currently buried under feet of the stuff, but still -- this is “Hotlanta.” MILD winters, guys. MILD.)

In any case, these have been the most technically tricky thing I’ve ever made, I think. I’ve had to rip and re-do a couple of the fingers a few times, and I’m not really sure why -- but I know that I’ve done my best! The second glove is a WAY better fit than the first even though the row count is almost exactly the same.

I will be really happy to have this done and see my daughter skedaddle off to the bus stop (she still insists on riding the bus) with them on her hands.

FINISHED! My gauge is so much tighter and the work is so much neater on the second one! I’m OK with that, though -- I still consider myself a beginner knitter, and I learn more and more with each project I do.

Now I’m itching to make a pair for myself! :-D

FUNNY STORY FOLLOW-UP: So I’ve picked up the wee one from school and we’re driving home. Guilty look: “Momma, look. I only have one.” Skeptical, thinking that I’m totally being trolled: “Oh yeah? What happened to the other one?” “I dropped it in the gutter.” “Uh huh. Why didn’t you pick it up?” “It went into the sewer thing.” “Yeah, sure. Right. Where?” (still thinking she’s pulling my leg) “At the bus stop.” Remembering that there is, indeed, a sewer/drainage thingie at the bus stop “How in the world did you manage to drop it into the sewer? How does that possibly happen?!” “I was tying my shoe and it just fell down.” So anyway, following much disbelief on my part and, yes, some ranting and raving -- but not mean -- I got home and started rummaging through the garage. Grabbed a fishing pole before husband came out with an awesome thing that he had made for me -- a stick with a wire hook on the end -- and we drove up to the bus stop and, miracle of miracles, snagged it out of the cistern that it had fallen into. Long story, happy ending. Kiddo lucked out!!