Old Mittens

This is one of my first pair of mittens. Cold winters here create the need for an endless supply and variety of hand, neck, head, face and other body coverings, and I wanted to try something new. These are knitted flat and stitched up the side, and I really like the embroidery in the same yarn, although I never really got it all the way done. Downside was that I used a cotton yarn and a big gauge, so the wind blows right through them and the second they are a little wet you are frozen. I also have a problem with the size of the thumb gusset. Not sure whether it's just too small or I made them wrong (Naw, couldn't be that!) but they just are a little more snug on the bases of the thumbs than they should be. Add to that the general peskiness of mitten-restriction, (the fact that you have to take them off to actually DO anything), and these beauties, sadly, have ended up decorating the bottom of my mitten tub in the closet. Pretty much exclusively. Ah well... I learned a lot.