Mother's Day Fingerless Mitts

I designed these fingerless mitts just for Mom for Mother's Day this year.  They were fun to do and came out as well as I had hoped.  I love the design on the back of the hand with the beads.  I also like how the palm designed turned out as well.

I took a "formula" for making fingerless mitts and a couple pattern ideas from a book and began writing.

I finished knitting them on Mother's Day and got them into the mail Tuesday afternoon after sharing them with my friends at the local yarn shop during our Tuesday social knitting time.  Mom got them in the mail today and is very happy with them and reports they fit very well (something I was a bit worried about when making them).

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!  I love you :)

Butterfly Free fingerless hand mitts

These are the fingerless gloves/hand mitts I designed for the silent auction to be held at our local yarn shop. Sheila Joynes, one of the shop managers, hand me this yarn and another (not pictured) to make something out of them for the auction. The auction will benefit breast cancer research and goes hand-in-hand with our charity knitting of "knitted knockers" which are distributed as needed. We've even had requests for our knitted and crocheted breast prosthesis from as far away as Georgia!

At any rate, the pattern itself for the "skeleton" of the mitts is from a few pages copied from a book that belongs to my friend Andrea Brush. From there I got the design on the back of the hand from the 2011 Advent Scarf I made. It is only a portion of the repeated section.

The ladies have asked me to write the pattern up for sale. Sheila also said I should put it up for sale on Ravelry. Quite an exciting adventure.

Now I have to figure out what to do with the other yarn. It's quite different from this yarn, which was a sport weight mercerized cotton, called Butterfly Cotton. This is the yarn we use to make our knitted and crocheted breast prosthesis. The other is mainly black, with specks of knobby colors. Should be interesting. I recently purchased a book on lace and eyelet patterns. I have to find just the right pattern for the next pair of mitts.