This is the third of five patterns in my Ebook The Three Skein Project.

These are the simplest style of mitten. Both left and right mittens are made the same and can be worn on either hand. They were the best mittens to make when my children were small and lost as many mittens as I knit. One was always going astray and I often knit 3 mittens at a time.

They are truly a round tube with a round top and thumbs added after the mitten is knit. They can be made any length. Even make them very small and don’t put in thumbs for a very baby mitten.

This pattern is a formulaic type of pattern.

Included in this pattern are the average lengths and sizes of a variety of mittens from children’s to men’s, including how many stitches to cast-on and how wide to make the thumb insertion.
• When knitting something as basic as a mitten, which is merely a tube with a thumb, it is easy to make minor changes. Change the stitch count to accommodate your yarn or size of hand. Want to insert a stitch pattern and need a certain st count, make appropriate changes.
• Have a narrow wrist? Make the ribbing over fewer stitches and then make increases to get to the appropriate stitch count.
• Long hand or short hand? Change the length.
Mittens have been made for centuries and everyone makes them as they want them.

A photo tutorial is included for the afterthought thumb.

Materials: – from 40grs (child) to 80 grs (large men’s) worsted weight yarn, sample yarn is Haynes Creek Heather Aran in three shades (sample used 191 (grey marl), 100 (natural), and 174 (red heather)) markers and the regular notions.
plus some waste yarn for the thumb insertion point; 3.75mm US #5 and 4.5mm US #7 dpns, 6 or 7inch length; and 5-inch glove needles, in the larger size for knitting the thumbs if you have them.
Gauge: 20sts in 4 inches in stockinette.
Sizes – child to large man