These mittens are super simple and fit great.

YARN, GAUGE, SIZE AND MACHINE
The sample is made with Mary Lue’s Liberty Plus on a Brother 260 with ribber, using stitch size 2/2. The stockinette gauge is 5 stitches/6 rows/inch. Any #4 yarn on the light end of the spectrum such as Caron Simply Soft or Tamm Nordic may also be used. Heavy, stiff #4 yarns such as Red Heart Super Saver are not recommended. A mid-gauge with a ribber can match the gauge at a larger stitch size. A single bed machine may be used if you are willing to reform stitches to create the ribbing. A second gauge for standard machines in a yarn that gets 7 stitches/10 rows/inch in stockinette appears in {brackets}. Standards use fingering or sport yarn at stitch size 4-6, making sure the knitting on both beds matches whether the number is the same or not.

4 basic sizes are given: children, youth-small adult, medium-large adult, XL adult. These sizes will fit hands up to a circumference of 6, 7.2, 8.4, 9.6”. But these sizes are very forgiving due to the ribbing. The sample is the medium-large adult size on my husband’s hands. The small adult size would fit me so these mittens are too long for me at the fingers and thumb but they are not too big around. They simply pull in to hug my smaller hands. In fact, the large adult size will pull in all the way to a 5” circumference. So if I wanted denser fabric for my mittens, I could use the large adult stitch count and small adult row count. In addition, the row count may be easily adjusted to fit a specific pair of hands. Almost all children not babies can wear the smallest size for circumference but you may wish to adjust row count to a particular pair of hands. By the age of 10-12, most children are up to the youth/small adult size.