Mittens!

I love mittens. And gloves, and all variations. But I don't like knitting them. All that jiggery-pockery to join the fingers, just when you think you are done. All that fiddling and guesswork to figure out how many stitches you need, and where to start the thumb gusset, and all that. And let's not mention the bloody gaps between the fingers.

So I looked for somethin else. And I found Nona's pattern on how to make gloves from the fingers down! I read through her pattern for full gloves, and transformed it into a pattern for short-finger mittens, which I've been wanting to knit for myself for a really long time... I didn't use I-cord fingers because, with the weight of yarn I was using, I-cord wide enough for my fingers meant picking up stitches along a very long gap between the edges. But the theory is the same.

So, here is what I did...

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