mitten sadness
I finished my first thrummed mitten and I'm about halfway through the second one. Sadly, I'm going to run out of yarn. I'm not sure why. I did use a different pattern, but I compared with the Fleece Artist pattern that the kit was for and they were pretty similar. Same gauge, same number of sts, etc. I'm thinking that I have enough yarn to make it most of the way up my fingers, but not enough to close the mitten or knit the thumb. Another skein of the BFL Aran costs over $30 to that's not an option.
I did notice that the cuffs on these are rather long though. It wouldn't be terrible to make them shorter... except that I don't want to unknit all of my work and start again. I've never really tried un-knitting from the CO edge, so I'm not even sure if that's possible but I suppose it's worth looking into.
Too bad, because I loved the first mitten so much I was wearing it all around and hugging it. I really want these to work because they're so warm and fuzzy.
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It seemed silly to spend a ton of time looking for other solutions when the mittens only took a couple of days to knit anyway. I'll just have to reknit.
I'm shortening the cuffs, and I'm also taking going to cast on 4 less sts (to keep the thrums even). The mittens were a bit big all around. Probably because there are no finished measurements and I knitted the women's medium when I think I just needed the small. So, in the end, I think that they'll be better now anyway. At least that's what I'm telling myself. :)