I’m knitting mittens for my best friend right now and that’s not the issue but I will have enough left over yarn to make some mittens for myself too when I’m finished. The issue I have here is that she has big hands so the fact that these mittens are much too large for my, frankly, tiny hands is fine and even good but knitting mittens for myself with this yarn on these current needles I’m knitting her mittens with will absolutely produce mittens that I can’t wear. I don’t wanna waste this yarn on too big mittens for me.
I’ve sized up and down patterns with needles AND yarn weight before but never just with needles. If this pattern I’m looking at (different from best friend’s pattern) says that it will create “women’s medium” mittens and I need something more like “women’s small” do y’all think that going down a needle size from the original pattern but with the same yarn will give me small enough mittens for my tiny baby hands? Or do I need to find different yarn as well as needles?
For the record the pattern that I want to make for me is: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/magpie-mittens
And I was thinking of going down to US1 needles and my yarns are fingering and a yarn that I would call a chubby fingering or skinny sport cause it doesn’t really act like either imo.
Not super urgent as I’m working on best friend’s mittens still and have another gift knit to do before I make these but I’d still like to know if I should just look for a different pattern for this yarn.