This image has been severely tweaked in an attempt to make the pattern clearer. It looks fine in real life, but not so much on picture with this yarn. In person, the pattern is more 3D, it’s easier to see the nice bias, the wool is lovely autumnal shades… in photo, it pretty much just looks like a mess.
This picture gives a much better idea of the colour:
These are basically a mod of the Nutkin sock pattern turned into wristwarmers, but adapted in the following ways:
12.5 repeats along the arm, then the thumb (about 10 stitches knit on waste yarn, picked up and worked in the round for the thumb).
For the thumb, I started decreasing until it was a tight fit. I placed it so it travelled across two pattern repeats, which means four stitches (two either side of the thumb) I carried on as purl. The decreases I did to carry on with the way the pattern had set up and then, when it was the right tightness, I did a 1×1 cable stitch to keep up the diagonal.
On the pattern repeats after the thumb, I omitted the YO, doing a purl stitch where it wold be, to keep the pattern tight around the top of the hand. When it had decreased enough, I did the YOs again.
At the top, I did chromosome-crosses (wobbly, and going in the same direction as the pattern)- basically a four stitch repeat:
k1,p1,k1,p1.
c2r (knit stitch crosses in front of the purl),k1,p1
p1,k2,p1
p1,twist 2right (stitch from the left crosses the right), p1
p1,k2,p1,
p1,k1,c2r,p1
p1,k1,p1,k1.
I mirrored all of this (including the nutkin pattern) on the other hand, for the entirely rational reason that if the pattern pointed in the same direction on both warmers, then one would always be on the wrong hand and I wouldn’t know which.
i’ll write up the pattern more clearly and take close-ups if anyone wants to know more.