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Considering that I've worn them just about every day for the past two winters, my Selbu Mittens are holding up remarkably well -- maybe it's the tight gauge, because I don't tend to think of the Lamb's Pride that I knit them in as being a particularly durable yarn, but they're still going strong. Unfortunately, they're just not quite warm enough to get me through the coldest days of the year, so I've been casting about for other handknit solutions.

I thought a bit about making some convertible mittens, but most of the reviews of the patterns I found online and in books said the same thing: not warm enough, don't stay closed properly, lumpy. Plus, I wouldn't be able to put a pattern or something in them, which is a bummer. So, this morning I've been surfing the web intermittently at work, thinking about buying some cheap-ish cashmere to make a liner for another pair of mittens from the Folk Mittens book that my current pair came from.

Imagine my delight when this post popped up my RSS reader. I have a weakness for traditional Scandinavian-style designs, but these...!