Mi-love... Dactylled Mittens

In December, I'm going to northern Europe.  Kitty & Arne live in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, and I haven't been to visit them since 2004.  The last time I laid eyes on Kitty was when she came back to the states for a bit in 2005.  I haven't seen Arne since Germany.

The plan is to do some traveling in Denmark, Sweden, & Finland while I'm there since I'm in the general area.  As with all of my extended trips, I'll take along a blank book of some sort & log most everything I see & do.  But as I'll be so far north as winter descends, it will be COLD.

To prevent frozen fingers, I sorted out a hybrid of mittens & gloves.  Based off of a pair of my father's old leather work gloves in Maine, I've recreated something that should allow me to write without exposing my tender finger tips to the cold. 

Knit from the fingers down with three skeins of CashSilk by Laines du Nord, there is a quasi-mitten for the outside fingers and a single shot for my forefingers.  Hooray, dexterity!!

All three skeins were used, with about a yard and a half left over.  Thumbs were slightly offset to allow for better fit, and the gussets have double decreases every third row (instead of every other, as I usually do).  K2p2 rib on the underside of the wrist for a bit of spring & to minimize the stockinette roll-back.

All that remains is a bit of tidying up of the interior loose ends...