What I love about knitting mittens is that it is a small project that you can take anywhere with you and it is quick to finish. The mittens pictured above are worked flat in one piece and sewn together at the sides. I like this method because I find it easier to use the straight needles rather than double-pointed needles. What I don't like about them is that I had to sew them and make a seam. I love the cable pattern on them, but I think next time, if I make them again, I will make them on dpns and work in the round and eliminate the seam.
Now I am working on just a basic knitted mitten. I am using Bernat Softee Chunky and using the Bernat family mittens pattern. I made a mistake in them, I put eight stitches on the holder for the thumb and I was supposed to put ten on it, so the count for the hand part of the mitten should have only had 2 extra stitches, somehow I ended up with 4 extra stitches. For the hand I just arranged the stitches a little differently than they said to in the pattern and did an extra row of decreasing, rather than undoing all the work that I had done.
For the thumb they said to pick up 2 stitches and I was already 2 stitches short, so I needed 12 stitches on my needle for the thumb. Instead of picking up 2 stitches I picked up 4 to get the right stitch count.
For the next mitten I am going to make it the same way, put 8 on the holder for the thumb and pick up 4 stitches when I knit the thumb in. I don't know about the extra 4 stitches I had in the hand. Maybe I can figure out where I went wrong when I make the next one.
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