Dear One rides his bike every day. Almost every day. His hands get cold even with his merino gloves on. I saw the patterns for Trigger Mitts in the Saltwater Knitting series from Newfoundland. I ordered two of the books and Dear One chose a pattern he liked. Of course, the pattern he liked was not the one needed to make mitts his size. So I got to figure out how to change the foundation pattern to work with the design pattern. It took some thinking but in the end, it worked!
If you go to my Ravelry page you will see my notes.
The book I took the pattern from was Saltwater Mittens by Christine LeGrow and Shirley Scott. The size we needed was for Grenfell but the design Dear One wanted was Spring Ice...a smaller pattern! Well, I did the math and figured it out. It really was not a problem. I just added 3 Salt and Pepper stitches to the beginning of the front chart and 2 Salt and Pepper stitches to the end of the Spring Ice chart,.
There were multiple problems but I won't talk about them here. They are done and I expect Dear One will use them tomorrow when he goes for his bike ride.
Now I am on to the next project!
Nicely done
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