Used a provisional cast-on to begin some pairs, but have decided that it is easier to just pick up stitches.

Big section of mitt with thumb gusset takes 15 grams of yarn for each glove, so calculating how much yarn needed will be easier in the future. Flap and border takes 9 grams of yarn for each mitt.

Sewing on all the buttons takes an entire day for each pair. I knit 9 pairs of these for gifts, each pair with 28 buttons! That’s a lot of little dinky buttons!