Rainbow Heart Mitts (Glitz Mitts)

[terriko]

This is crossposted from Curiousity.ca, my personal maker blog. If you want to link to this post, please use the original link since the formatting there is usually better.

I live in a part of the Pacific Northwest that doesn’t get *that* cold, so I mostly get by with fingerless gloves. But then I got a dog and when I’m doing the last dog walk of the night it can be a bit nippy, so I switch to full mitts, the same ones I wear I go home to Canada in winter.

This should have worked perfectly except…

• The warmer mitts don’t fit in my pocket, so I forgot them a lot on night walks.





• Even when I remembered them, I wound up taking them off repeatedly so I could use my phone while Hatch checked his pee-mail.

a nearly complete mitt with a dog chomping a muppet-like toy on the background.

So I made new mitts! The pattern is the Glitz Mitts from Knit Happy with Self Striping Yarn. I liked the fact that they’re knit with two different weights of yarn, and I made one of them alpaca for extra warmth. But then instead of closing the thumbs up I put in a few rounds of ribbing and left them open.

Two colourwork hand knitted mitts featuring rainbow hearts and open thumbs.

Turns out you only really need your thumb to play Pikmin while walking the dog, so they’re perfect! ❤️

Happy hands, happy dog. Hatch is sitting on my chair with the finished mitts on his back.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Excellent mitts!