A family of wrist warmers

I promise I'll stop posting about crochet soon, but ...

So I got on a roll and made some wrist warmers for my sister and two nieces, copying from these. I stayed home one day last week, mostly because I needed some more sleep and before I got extra work to do to send to press and because it rained, and so I got a head start on some. I'm not sure the family will be overly impressed with receiving these in the middle of summer, but I quite like them. (I'm giving them a board game for the whole family, so these are a little something extra.) These colours are bright, but they're kids and that's what they like (these colours are more my style!).

The extraordinary thing is that the two pairs on the bottom are exactly the same size, or supposed to be - same number of stitches, same ply, same hook. But the dark purple I got from The Granny Square and it's the Morris and Sons Estate wool, and I have to say, it's not nice wool. It's not only more than twice the price of the Bendigo Woollen Mills pink wool on the left, but it keep sticking and splitting and my hook would occasionally go through the middle of it, which is a problem I don't usually have. So I think it's because the wool was so difficult to work with that the purple ones are smaller. Otherwise I can't explain it. And I have now satisfied my curiousity about using other wool for a time.

I haven't stitched them on yet in this photo but I thought I'd add the buttons to snazz them up a little for the kids. Aren't the bicycle buttons cute? (I know, my photo is rubbish, and they look wonky when they aren't really. I need to take better photos, not to mention get a better camera. These things are all in the presentation.)