You may recall me mentioning Two Hour Fingerless Gloves in a past post. Well, I had occasion to revisit the pattern and, naturally, I wanted to time myself to see if they really were a two-hour make.
As the title of the post gives away, each mitt took 100 minutes to make – so less than two hours per mitt, and just over three hours for the pair. This was start to finish, including seaming and sewing in ends. So a nice quick project… but the pattern does have its flaws.
You need to use your knitting sense and make corrections on the fly – the mitts as pictured are stockinette, but the pattern frequently instructs you to do two knit rows back to back. Keep an eye out for that, adjust ‘knit’ to ‘purl’ as makes sense, and you can sail through them.
The fit was OK on my small hands but on larger hands, they didn’t cover the knuckles. I unravelled a bit (and oh boy do those few words cover a lot of anguish in finding and undoing multiple ends of black yarn on a black piece), then added an extra six rows to the main body of the mitts before ribbing, casting off, and seaming back up.
I made the mitts in worsted weight with 4mm needles, as instructed, and they’re certainly cosy, with plenty of stretch for differently sized wearers. The reason that I picked up the pattern again was that a colleague mentioned she was volunteering with a street team who hands out clothes and meals to homeless people in Glasgow. I asked if they could use some scarves and gloves and she seemed keen, so it felt like a challenge for me to see how many I could make before spring is truly here and they’re no longer needed.
Living in Glasgow does give me more of a chance at this. While the weather is milder in March and sometimes even nice in April, you’re never really sure about being out of scarf territory until the end of May, really.
They’re not perfect, but they are perfectly serviceable. Plus they used about 70g of yarn which as you know is something I’m now moderately obsessed with.
I’ve added this post (a day late) to the Unraveled Wednesday linkup, with thanks to Kat for hosting.
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