The birds were chatting merrily and leaf-mould fragrance was in the air but there was frost on the car windshield so for my early morning stroll I put the first completed mitten (made from a fingerless glove) onto one hand and ….

glove and fingerless glove onto the other.

After a block or so I was pulling my increasingly chilly fingers out of the glove fingers and cupping them up against my warm palm.

The mitten was living up to my expectation of clothing as architecture housing the body and making use of our natural heating and cooling system but it was not toasty.  The stroll-through-stash back is perhaps a bit too airy and lets the cold in.

Once the second mitten is finished I plan to put on and then the mittens and see how that works the next cold day.  Or maybe cut a thrift store cashmere sweater sleeve and sew it into a mitt shape and use that as a liner.  Any tightness does affect circulation so eliminating finger squeeze may be the answer.