Finished Object: Sunny Sunday Mittens

I love these mittens! Jacquie knit a pair of these first, and as soon as I saw them I knew I had to make myself a pair first (copycatting is fun!).

Pattern & Modifications
The pattern is Sundagsvotter, a free pattern by Strikkepanja (download the english version here). The only minor modification I made was to knit them extra long--I love long cuffs on my mittens, so I can tuck them well up into my sleeves. There is nothing I hate more than that draft at the top of your mittens when they don't tuck far enough into your sleeves!
Needles & Yarn
The yarn is Colinette Jitterbug in Vincent's Apron. I am not normally a yellow person but this colour was just too gorgeous -- its almost a deep gold in places. I used 2.25mm (US 1) needles to knit these mittens, and the result is pretty much the perfect weight fabric for this pattern and yarn. This is the colour yellow from the sock-yarn rainbow project... the one I began in early 2008. I sure have been slow to work my way through this one! My original plan was to knit only socks and follow the order of the spectrum, but I completely stalled on the colour orange for so long that the nicely balled up other colours actually started to get dusty in the pretty red bowl I was displaying them in. So I hid the unfinished orange project deep in my basket of UFO's and put this lovely golden yarn to use.Timeline
August 3-14, a very satisfying quick project. I was pretty monogamous to this project while I was working on it, otherwise I never would have completed it so quickly!