from jesse: “Winter has truly arrived here, so I made scarves and fingerless mittens for the market. (I wore my own mittens at the last market, and people kept asking whether I sold them.) The mittens pretty much flew off the table. I took a bag of unfinished ones to sew up while I was there, and couldn’t keep up. I couldn’t even manage to have more than one finished pair on display at a time!

As usual, it’s more of a recipe than a pattern. It’ll fit pretty much anyone - on Saturday I sold a pair to a little boy who couldn’t have been more than 4 years old; they reached halfway up his arms, but they fitted! The finished mittens look small, but they’re superstretchy. If you really need them to be bigger, add one or two stitches on at the sides.

Use any DK wool. Wool is better than synthetics for these, because they’re knitted at a fairly loose gauge, so you need the superior insulating qualities of wool.

6mm straight needles for cast on and cast off, 5.5mm straights for the knitting.