Cathedral Mittens by Lizbeth Upitis

Three color rows. A few really long floats. Braided cuff. Annoying slip stitch pattern. More than a half hour's worth of ends to deal with per mitten. Still I think these Latvian mittens will make a good Christmas gift.

I used size 0 dpns and 12 colors of sock yarn from my stash. The pattern is the Cathedral Mittens by Lizbeth Upitis from the book Homespun Handknit. I was worried I'd run out of black but as it turned out I had enough. If I had know I would have made the cuff background black. I did add some extra duplicate stitch to the cuff in black.

I am going to make some alpaca mittens next. I will use the baseball playoffs to help me finish all my holiday gift knitting.