Crocheted Mittens

It's cold, I mean really cold,  where I live. The other day when I took the kids to school it was one below. That afternoon it warmed up to a whopping 9 degrees. So to help my kiddos' hands stay warm I made them mittens.

Every winter I go through a phase where I feel like crocheting. Last year I crocheted hats for all my kids. You can find the hats here.
This year with the leftover yarn, I made mittens to match for my girls. My son already had gloves and I didn't have any yarn left over from his hat. {He always seems to be left out, but honestly I don't think he cares}

This project actually started last year. Below are a couple of my first attempts. I didn't like the pattern I used. It basically had you make two flat pieces and then stitch them together. The mitten on the left was my first attempt. It was ok, but it was too small. So I tried with all my expertise {can you hear the sarcasm} to make it larger. The result was the mitten on the right. I laugh when I look at it.

Well, I found a different pattern that I love! It's so much better. I made one of the mittens last year and then it sat in my crochet bag for an entire year before I finished it's mate. I ended up having to unravel one of the ugly mittens in order to have enough yarn to finish it.

These ones are for my 3 year old.

And these ones I made for my 5 year old.

 One of the things I love about this pattern is that it is for multiple sizes. Child, women's and men's. For my oldest, I made the women's mitten but shortened them a bit. {Basically I just left out a few rows in the middle of the glove.}

You can see that I ran out of yarn. I found some cream yarn in my stash that was a close match. I'm not sure if the store would even have the same yarn as last year. And then I'd have a whole skein and probably wouldn't use it.

Stay tuned, I made myself a hat too.{Actually I made two, but only one is wearable.} It will probably be next week before I share it. Too many things on the family calendar to get to it before then.


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