Plain mittens

I continued knitting while my sisters cat was present. He loves to follow while I'm working, for him it seems to be an exiting soap opera he can watch for hours.

I begun to make these very warm and thick mittens to be wore at the coldest time of the year. I wanted to have something extra for the look so I decided to make plains. First I had problems with the thickness of the yarn, since I had to consider the decrease that thicker yarn causes, and at the same time remember that thickness also takes more space. Plus when making such big plains the mittens also get narrower.

I ended up having 40 loops at the beginning. At the end of the wrist I added ten backward loop into all of the backward spaces to have the right amount of loops for the palm part of the mitten considering all the things mentioned above.

I used Novitas' "Tempo" yarn. It is 64 % wool and 35 % acrylic. The recommended stick size was 7 to 8 but I used 4. I wanted to have thick mittens not ones with holes on it.

The color I chose was one of my favourites. I love the colours of autum. I would like to wear more of those colours so I decided to have one pair for myself. I will post the picture of these mittens before the first use.