Yup! There is *one* mitten from it, too. My very first attempt at doing a hat spiraling from the center didn't include adding extra stitches (since I'd never made 3-D objects from string before, only weaving, sewing and embroidery, I didn't know I needed to). As a result it became very conical, and while it could have, in the fullness of time, grown long enough to become one of those hats where the point hangs fully down the back, I knew that I wasn't willing to do that many stitches, nor did I have enough yarn.

So I set the failed attempt aside, using it as a bag in which to store the wool to be added. When I finished that hat there was still some yarn left, and I decided that I may as well try to turn it into a mitten, since it fit the ends of my fingers nicely. I'd managed to get it far enough along to have a thumb and just cover the back of the hand, but not the wrist, when I went to the Textile Forum last August, and learned the Finnish Stitch (from a woman from Finland, no less). Since that was the only yarn I had on me, I used it to learn the new stitch, attaching a cuff of Finnish stitch to the mitten.

There is quite a contrast between the textures of the two stitches, and the Finnish stitch is *much* faster, since each knot goes over so many additional threads, so takes up more volume per stitch. (Which makes it much thicker and warmer, too). Once I finished that mitten I started a second cuff in Finnish stitch, so as to be certain I could remember how to start a project whilst my teacher was still available, but ran out of yarn about the time the second cuff was complete. So if I ever want to finish the second mitten, I'll have to find another yarn which looks nice with this one.

Thanks so much for the yarn! It has been fun to play with. Now I just need to decide what to do with the lovely burgundy stuff you also gave me. Probably not till I finish the socks in progress, though. I think that yarn may want to become something tablet-woven...