Cheater mitts

I made these from one of the first sweaters that I attempted to unravel. I took it apart and started to unravel. It kept sticking, so I decided that it was just too felted to unravel.

 

I cut the front into two pieces and seamed it to just under the thumb opening on my serger. Then I serged the opening to finish the edges and serged the upper end of the mits. I seamed the part above the thumb opening by hand and picked up stitches with DPNs using some of the yarn I had managed to unravel. I don’t remember the needle size. I just grabbed some that were out. I did some shaping with short rows. If I do another pair like this, I will use a pattern for the thumb part. I was in such a creative rush that it didn’t occur to me at the time. I wound up having to gather the top of the thumb part a bit.

 

To finish the tops of the mitts I used single crochet.

 

The next day I tried again and was able to unravel the rest of the sweater. It was one of those that you have to do winding two balls, a real bugger to unravel what with the sticking and that issue.

 

The yarn is a bit scratchy for elbow length mitts, but bearable. I’m wearing them as I type. :)

 

The next day I tried again and managed to unravel the rest of the sweater.

Done