#glittens

A year ago I started knitting two pairs of glittens, one in solid black and the other in this multicolor red, blue, yellow, and green yarn.

I didn’t finish them until this month, and in sunlight I saw that the black pair was navy blue with one black cuff. I knit them again in actual black yarn. I finished the multicolor pair this week, but the yarn is slightly lighter weight and they're just a little small on me. I also had to add yarn to thumb and finger tips, so they’re just not comfortable. I’ll end up reknitting those as well.

It’s not like I haven't knit my mother's Glitten pattern before. My first pair was more than 10 years ago in the Huckleberry colorway of Mountain Colors' Mountain Goat. Over the years I also knit a matching hat and cowl. I knit a pair for the holidays in a medium tan, one with a broad green stripe and thumb and the other with a broad red stripe and thumb. The third pair, in this sort of zebra gray and white yarn, has a red stripe across one glitten to accompany a scarf in the same yarn with a blood red stripe at one end.

Cloudy skies and black yarn make these glittens look like shadow puppets, but I did finish the thumb and finger on the first one and reach the same point on the second. Productivity!

I started this first glitten (mitten with a forefinger) last January, but I thought I was farther along when I set it aside. 🙄 Time to hop to. Waste yarn holds stitches for the thumb and finger.

Once they’re finished, I’ll have black glittens, cap, scarf, and coat… not to wear all at once, but to emphasize one or two colorful items as the mood strikes.

These are glittens—mittens with a forefinger—a design of my mother’s published in Homespun, Handknit back in the 80s. It’s a comfort knit for me, and we’ve had such cold weather that I pulled the brightest worsted weight yarn I could from my stash to knit another pair.