My continuing quest for warm hands

I've knitted gloves before but they were always for someone else. For the longest time I've hankered for a pair of gloves to call my own. So I'm finally going to remedy this situation. The pattern is the ruffled gloves from Loop d Loop and the yarn is some knit picks palette (I possess a metric ton of this stuff). This is the first glove and I'm quite close to starting the fingers. The only modifications I've made thus far is to go down a needle size on both the big and small needles and to use thinner yarn. I must be the loosest knitter in the universe because even when I get gauge and knit things several sizes smaller than my measurements - I often end up with something too big. Hence the going down in yarn and needle size. So far they seem to fit fine.

Why do you wear those socks on your hands?*

These were finished a couple days ago and took about that long dry after I washed 'em. Even with not rushing it only took three days total to do the second warmer. Again, my own pattern and mystery lambswool/alpaca blend. I love these. I got exactly what I set out to make. How nice when that happens.

*Number one question I get from the middle schoolers when I bust out the hand warmers. Number two is "Will you knit me some?" and occasionally "what's the point if they don't cover your fingers?"

Like socks, but faster

I've not been knitting a whole lot lately. There's the beanie that never ends, but progress on that is dull. And I've got two sweaters going but they are top down raglans and not past the yokes. So I decided that maybe what I needed was an instant gratification project. I settled on hand warmers. I actually only have one pair but I've knit lots - they make excellent gifts because they take so little yarn and time. I knit this one yesterday. I plan on casting on the next one today but taking my time with it. There is no pattern, I cast on a couple times and ripped out until I got what I wanted. I like my hand warmers on the snug side as they tend to loosen up a lot with washing and wearing. I knit them on sixes and used a worsted weight alpaca/lambswool blend for the yarn. I don't know the brand as I've long lost the ball band (I know it's not Berroco though). The yarn started life as a beret that I knit around six months ago. I kept pulling it out of my knitting bag, putting it on, sighing, and putting it back. I figured since I had yet to weave in ends the yarn was not intended for a beret.

Originally I was going to put the cable down the back of the hand but I didn't like it that way and then I figured on the side might work. It does, though I'm thinking I might sew a few mismatched buttons on the stockinette section. I'll see once they're done.