The first of my Friday Inspiration posts as part of the UK Swap.

Until very recently, I’d never knitted mittens. In fact, I’d never really knitted any handwarmers at all, save for a pair of Voodoo Wristwarmers for my sister. So this is a hard topic for me to write an interesting post on.

My first mittens were from the Selbuvotter book:

I used RYC Cashsoft 4ply in cream and black, which makes for nice soft mittens. They are like little works of art and I often just admire and pet them because I can’t quite believe I am so clever to have knitted them.

I’d like to have the confidence to use interesting combinations of colours in a pair of mittens, other than just black and white. These and these mittens, for example, are beautiful.

Edited because I completely forgot about the Endpaper Mitts I made.

I gave these ones away as a gift, and always intended to knit some more, but never got around to it.