I really like the more fluffy version, so hopefully this yarn adds both sheen and halo to the mittens. Love this version and will copy the contrasting picot-edge at the top.
These will be the new travel project for the next weeks.

November 19, 2012:
Cast on with needles #3 in the smallest size - because of gauge difference way too large. Ripped back, cast on two sizes smaller (i. e. 12 stitches less, as sizes are graded in steps of six stitches), and, of course, these are too small.
Next try will be with 36 stitches then.
Ripped again. Will do the small size (42 stitches) after all, even without the decrease to 35 after hem.
Without all this ripping I could have finished already…

Ach well.
The small size fits my hand with negative ease, spraining the stitches and the finishing picot on the hand flares a bit.
Made the second mitten in size L with 45 stitches, fits better but is too wide on that first picot-edge. Because I wanted a tight picot hem on the hand I decreased 8 stitches on the first purl row of the second lace pattern by knitting together each 5th and 6th stitch, switching to a smaller needle after the turning row and casting-off by sewing the stitches down. Would do that again.

In short: my ideal version is a size L with 45 stitces all over, decreasing in the last purl row of the lace.

As I doubt anybody will notice what I consider unideal features I’ll wear these two very different mittens as they are. The next pair will be perfect!

used up 40g in beige, and a rest of white