My pretty mittens!

My pretty mittens!
Originally uploaded by taikasatama

Noro Silk Garden and some pretty flourishes and instant gratification is on its way! :) I wore these for the first time today and the colours just shined (or shone?;) ) in the grey autumn day.

I impulse bought two skeins of Silk Garden lite a while back and instantly knew that it had to be made into this kind of mittens. Lately, I've been knitting a huge baby package for a friend of mine and I had to postpone my other projects but now that it's out of the way I finally had free time for my own projects. It's been getting colder so my green lace mittens weren't really warming me up outside, so this project was the first on the list.

The grey yarn is Novita Stone, awfully pretty and awfully scratchy and awfully splitty - so that's one out of the three:) Seriously, I am very tolerant about wools that other people find incredible itchy and the Stone is almost too much even for me.

Silk Garden, on the other hand, is delightful. I love the colours, of course, and I love the one-ply texture. And it's soft, too, not the softest yarn ever, but nice enough that I could imagine wearing it against my skin. I did have to fiddle with the colour changes a little bit, otherwise I would have ended with one purple mitten and one brown mitten - so now i have three small skeins of browns and purples because I dug out all the fuchsia and teal for these:) And even then, the other mitten is almost completely purple:)

I thought of uploading the chart for the swirls on Ravelry, but I'm no sure what kind of changes I'll need to make on it because I have such small hands that it wouldn't really work for other than children's mittens as it is. But we'll see, on the other hand there are already several cool swirly mitten patterns out there:)