This was easy.
No. I take that back. This was HARD. I love my Ravelry queue. (I love any utility that lets me organize being a packrat.) But the queue has 91 mitten patterns. That doesn't count all the mittlets, or even stuff that gets lost by not having the right tags.
I would love to say "in no particular order, here are the patterns", but that would be a blatant lie.
1-4 I love so much I have the yarn for them in stash, purchased and committed to THEM ALONE.
5-7 There has been lust in my heart for them for years. YEARS. I am not exaggerating.
8-10 The love is there, and they will soon advance to one or both of the first two categories. I may even own the pattern.
Am I overthinking this? I doubt it. Tell me you don't dream of patterns you want to knit as you fall asleep at night.
1. Druid Mittens (Jared Flood)
2. Inuit
3. Night Birds
6. Frostrosen
7. Austrian Mittens (CEStrick)
9. Lillehammer
10. Galileo
Three textured patterns, seven colorwork. Next week, there will inevitably be additions and subtractions, reframed for the mood, or the color or the whim.
Great list! I especially like the swirly design on Galileo.
Posted by: Beth | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 08:16 AM
Druid and Nightbirds are on my list, too. Mittens and mitts are seemingly small, simple projects, until we realize the many stitches, and many hours, it takes to knit up the texture and the colorwork.
Posted by: margene | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 08:27 AM
I so love mittens - and your list added to my favs on rav!
Posted by: Karen | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 08:42 AM
Love all of these. Mittens are one of my favorite things to knit. Small and usually with worsted weight yarn, so they're quick.
Posted by: Liz | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 09:09 AM
They knit up much faster than socks but only if you start them. I am currently immune to pattern suggestions seeing as I am totally smitten by a hat. There's no room between my ears for anything else, which was exactly what I planned.
Posted by: Caroline M | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 09:17 AM
what? no Yuma Double Knitting Mittens? They come with several charts, bears, wolves, owls, and "flowers" -- they look like snowflakes to me...
Posted by: christy | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 09:54 AM
And my Ravelry queue gets even longer . . .
Posted by: Carole | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM
There goes my queue again. I really love Galileo. Those swirls have me.
Posted by: Hillary | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Great list. I love the Northman Mittens. I think everyone's queue is growing today!
Posted by: Donna | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:57 AM
It's a good thing I prefer gloves to mittens, that's all I can say.
Posted by: Lynn | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM
The mittens are all wonderful!!! I'm with you. There are so many I want to knit. If only I had more hands!!!!
Posted by: CindyD | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 01:28 PM
I'm not a big mitten fan, but those Japanese wave mittens caught my fancy. (Damn you.)
Posted by: kmkat | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 06:44 PM
You've just made my own mitten list grow longer.
Posted by: Paulette | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 07:32 PM
OMB, I'm a convert - Carol Sunday's Aberdeen mittens! Want! Now!
Posted by: Lynn | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 08:42 PM
What a great list! I just added Frostrosen to my queue...
Posted by: Allison | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Some of them I already have in queue, and now I've added others. My hat-knitting mood may be shifting to mittens suddenly...
(Oh, and http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hippocampus - want to make these, too!)
Posted by: gayle | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 08:27 AM