Here are the finished product, lovely mittens in very rustic wooly wool from the MacAusland Mill in PEI. Although the colour of the wool is synthetic, I think that it looks very much like pale woad. :-)
I have already cast on for a tall sock, and my winter clothing collection is becoming much more comfortable.
Here's an early medieval mitten, in the collection of the National Museum of Iceland (
www.nationalmuseum.is),