Knitting project #1 for my mom

My mom and I were chatting on the phone around the 1st of July. She had been looking at some of the projects that I had knitted and commented on how much she liked my leg/armwarmers and handwarmers. She asked if I could try and design her a pair of handwarmer that were attached to some arm warmers. I told her I'd try to. I didn't think it could be too hard to make them an all in one item.

After we finished our conversation, I went on-line to Simply Socks Yarn Company to order some yarn for these Arm/Handwarmers. Since my mom can't wear wool, I had to look for some cotton yarn. I finally decided on Cascade Fixation Solid (colorway 5363) and ordered 4 skeins. Since this yarn has some elastic added in, I thought it would be perfect for these arm/handwarmers.

The yarn arrived on July 10th and on July 11th I crocheted a chain of 54 stitches and picked up 52 stitches and knitted them on to size 2 dpn's and evenly spread them around on 3 needles. Then I worked the handwarmer like I've done on 4 other pairs I've knitted. When the handwarmer was finished and all the threads woven in, I slowly removed the crochet cast on and picked up 52 stitches and placed them 3 dpn's I then knitted the first row to get the arm warmer started.

The pattern I used was:
Row 1: knit
Row 2: p2, k4, p2, k4, p1 (first needle), p1, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k1 (second needle), k3, p2, k4, p2, k2 (third needle).
Row 3: knit
Row 4: k3, p2, k4, p2, k2 (first needle), k2, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4 (second needle), p2, k4, p2, k4, p1 (third needle).
I then worked these 4 rows until I had 28 rows finished. Then I began increasing 1 stitch at the beginning and end of the first row. I had to adjust rows 2 and 4 after each increase. I kept increasing until I had 108 stitches. Then I just followed my pattern for 16 more rows with no increases. Then I decreased every other row until I had 100 stitches, and started knitting my k2, p2, ribbing for 22 more rows. Then I bound off loosely and wove in all my remaining threads. That was just for the first arm/handwarmer, now I have to repeat this for the other arm.

Right now I have the second arm/handwarmer started with the thumb increases on a holder. I should soon have the handwarmer finished and ready to start on the arm by tomorrow.

Hope my mom likes these. She's already asked me to knit her up another pair of socks and I have the yarn ready to start knitting with once I'm finished with these arm/handwarmers.