Arctic Blast Mitts in "Midnight"

My mother!

With moving comes cardboard boxes and fortunately, my mother had a friend at work who was willing to lend us her moving boxes for my move from Walla Walla to Bellevue.  As a thank you, my mom bought some yarn (Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend in "Midnight") and I knit her a pair of fingerless gloves. They turned out really well; it helps that the yarn is beautiful. Because it is kettle dyed, there is a slight shading to the color. The 30% silk mixed in with the extra fine merino certainly doesn't hurt anything either.

I particularly liked the bind off method and I think I'll use it on gloves in the future. The bind off method recommended was Elizabeth Zimmerman's stretchy sewn bind-off.  Rather than knitting your stitches off the needles, you cut your yarn after your last knitted row leaving a long tale (at least x5 the length of what you want to bind off) and using a tapestry needle, sew through the first two stitches purl-wise then back through the first stitch knit-wise. Then you pull the first stitch off. You keep doing that all the way around. The result was (surprise) a stretchy bind off that was even and didn't have a clunky edge.

These gloves won't be available in my Etsy shop but if you're interested in commissioning a pair of gloves for yourself or a friend, shoot me an email at knittinsmitten@gmail.com.