Third time's a charm!!

hand for reference..(so you can see how large it is)



Merry Christmas. So how did i spend my Christmas day you ask? at home...mostly sleeping...I was a bit sick, and felt ill all day...so i left work early & slept the rest of the time. After being waken up for dinner, i took a pill & felt better so, I ended up finishing Fill's mittens...FINALLY! third time's a charm i suppose. It's taken me forever due to the fact that I frogged it so many times. the first mitten was made and then it was too oddily shaped. the second mitten, left hand was made, but it was super huge...so I decided to frog the right hand mitten & make it just as big as the left hand mitten. AND just when i thought i was finished...It turned out, i made TWO left hand, and NO right hand. I had to remake the second left hand, into the right. It's a good thing the only difference is the mitten top, so the mitten top was frogged, and reattached tonight...and now...TADA! we have a fully functional convertible mittens! I hope fill likes it...it at least took 3 days...if i hadn't taken all those days off in between... this project wasn't hard, just there's a lot of directions and lots of counting for me.

Crocheted Mittens/Fingerless Gloves from www.crochetandknitting.com/mitglov2.htm ( i made the women version cuz it's sized smaller.)

as for alterations i made... For the thumb part, I cut out a round in 2 to 7 and only did 7 rounds not 8 rounds.

For the palm part: I only did 3 rounds.

For the mitten part, I didn't do round 13...due to the smaller hands.

Yarn Used: Patons Quick & Chunky Tweeds in the color Biscuit Beige, and used what seems like a 8/0 hook from my cheap SKC hook stash. I used two skeins...one for each mitten with a small amount left over.

It's a quick crochet project if you didn't span it over weeks...less than 6 hours per glove for me is how long i calculated it.

I would consider in making this again in a different yarn...perhaps if I used a thinner yarn, then the glove wouldn't be so large.