The Finished Wrist Warmers

Finally finished them. Here's what I started with:

Here's what they look like now:

 In these photos, it actually looks like the thumb part is toward the back of the glove, 

but it's not. It's larger than that and is right on the side. 

What I learned: although it may *look* as if your thumb sticks straight out from the palm of your hand when it's lying flat on the table, it does not. Thumb holes need to go slightly to the front. That's why these get wonky when I wear them, and now I know. I'm ready to make another pair, and for those, I'll cut the hole for the thumbs just a little forward. Wish I'd known that in the first place, but lots of the wrist warmers I looked at before I did this had the holes on the side. Grrrrr.

Other thing I learned (and, wow! not even the hard way: I figured it out before I did it wrong) is that the tube for the thumb is not a rectangle. You have to cut one end on the slant to make it work well or one side is going to bunch up on your thumb.

Tomorrow morning when I get up I've got to triage the projects again. I'm at the weird place where I have some things I can work on but not any big projects ready to really dig into. This morning I was reduced to beading on The Endless Beading Project, which frankly depresses me--it's gone on far too long, and while it will look fabulous if I ever finish it, that "if" is looming larger and larger.

Now we're off to Starbucks~~