Fingerless mitts

Is anyone else fond of fingerless mittens?

I know I am!

I always thought that to keep warm one needed big, bulky gloves made of insulating material. Maybe it is our climate with not very harsh winters but quite windy and wet autumn and spring, but I slowly became convinced that covering my wrists and palms usually is enough for my fingers to remain usable.

I saw a few interesting pictures on Pinterest and I began wondering how I can make something similar to the next three pictures. A little bit of thinking and backwards engineering and I came up with my version of mittens knit sideways.

Black fingerless mittens

Brown fingerless mittens

Purple fingerless mittens

 These are only three colors I finished lately. More colors are coming.
I love them because they are seamless, fairly tight, yet they still allow my fingers to move.

Talking about autumn weather, this gloomy, wet rainy weather doesn't help one bit with the photos. I had to ask my husband to take these pictures at night, with artificial light. Lucky that my camera is good enought to take decent pictures that can be easily edited. I tried to get the color of the mittens as close to reality as possible.

After I came up with my version of these fingerless mittens, I saw that there are more similar patterns available on Ravelry. Still I have the feeling it could be beneficial to write down my version of these. So my next project is up. Now I need to make a lighter colored version, so I won't have so much trouble with taking detailed pictures of every step.