This was supposed to be a Christmas gift, but complications with the needle size delayed my progress. Maybe they’re mine now. 🙂

The pattern is Octopus Mittens – as usual, that’s a Ravelry link – which is a fair isle mitten pattern. The yarn is one I found at my LYS, which is from Scandinavia. It’s a wool called (improbably, at least in English) Tuna. Here are the mitts:Actually, this is two right mitts. Thanks to the flash, the colour shows as being a bit brighter than it is in real life. I knit the one on the right first with 2.25mm needles. It’s not very long – I have small hands and it just fits. The problem was that the intended recipient has longer fingers than me. I also wasn’t happy with the way the hem curled under. There’s a ribbed cuff that you turn to the inside after the band with the suckers is knit – on the right mitt, it pulls under too much. For the left, I knit two more rows of ribbing on that cuff and it looks much better. The left mitten is also knitted on 2.5mm needles. I knew changing needle size would make a difference, but look how much longer the one on the left is! Yet it’s not very much wider. How interesting.

By Christmas I had two right mitts, which isn’t very useful to anyone, especially as one is bigger than the other. I’m almost done the bigger left mitten, and since I’ve missed the deadline anyway, I think I’ll line both pairs. The bigger ones are so much bigger that they fit Mr. Math – so they might be too big for the intended recipient. She got something else this year, and maybe will get something else next year, too.

I’ll show you a pair when they’re done. The left one is a mirror image of the right.