Hop-on-hop-off mittens

Any fellow bikeriding knitters out there? I ride my bike almost every single day. Living in the city, it’s the easiest and fastest way to get around. This also means that I have to use my bike lock every single day. In winter, this results in putting on and taking back off my gloves or mittens quite often. And taking them off sometimes results in losing one of them, especially when I’m in a hurry. I stopped having this problem once I discovered capped gloves/mittens. These get your fingers free for use whenever you need them! Hop, warm fingers, hop, free fingers.

The problem I’ve head with these kinds of gloves/mittens, is that by the end of winter, my thumbs always start to break through. I guess they are just jealous of the other fingers, who can be freed so very easily. Anyway, I thought this might be a good reason to try and knit some myself. The pattern of my choice: the Urban necessity gloves by Subway Knitter.

I used some self-striping yarn I got for my birthday. As you can see in the pictures, the colour palette from one mitten is slightly different than the one from the other mitten. That’s because I used two skeins that were the same kind, but not the same colour. That’s what you get with birthday stash yarn 🙂 Sonce the two skeins were fairly similar, I didn’t think it would do much harm if I used both these skeins.