Wedding mitts

I finished the wedding mitts which is a good thing because their method of travel to New Zealand leaves on Monday next week and they have to be on board along with the shawl pictured.
The knitting of the gloves went well with no more than the usual tinks when a pattern didn't turn out right, usually from a lack of a yo in the previous row. This pattern was so much better than the mess I originally started with, I will undoubtedly use it again when anothr g-daughter gets married.
And speaking of patterns: the shawl in the picture is knitted with a pattern called "Valentine" and is one I've had for years. I managed to lose the pattern somewhere but fortunately, I had knitted a sampler with the pattern in it and I was able to recreate the pattern, and have since knitted several shawls with that pattern. And wouldn't you know, after the first or second shawl using that pattern, I lost the instructions again! (It is somewhere around the house somewhere, in my knitting stuff. It will turn up someday) but in the meantime, I had to re-recreate the pattern again. You'd think I'd know it by heart by now!
Also progressing on the Vernal Equinox shawl, to the last set in the pattern series. It is a very large shawl! Making progress also on the scarf/small shawl knitted with Mary Paton's Sparkle Mohair--I love knitting with this yarn! So much so, that I ordered a skein of every color they make minus the brown...just can't get into brown, although I have brown mohair spiderweb yarn I plan to knit into a shawl/scarf one of these days. And one of these yarns is destined to be a Mobius scarf. I knitted one far enough to get the gist of how it's done and realized that one simply does not keep knitting around and around. Midway through a row, one has to change to purling or it comes out with half of it knit and half purl, from the middle outwards. Don't ask me where the change occurs--after all, this thing has only one side and one edge yet it has two sides of a pattern. Go figure.