Goldilocks and the Mitten Yarn

So I am participating in a mitten game/swap/whatever you want to call it where I am making mittens for someone and someone is making hand-things (mittens, gloves, wristwarmers, whatever) for me. I know the pattern I want to use, so I went to find yarn in my stash that might work.

This combination is really pretty, but the yarn is too thick, and there won't be enough pattern repeats to be pretty:

So out went that choice. Then I found this yarn, which would be really lovely:

The problem is the green is 30 g and I think I need around 50 g according to the pattern (well, it's a pretty loosely written pattern, but I don't really know) and I don't even know what colour number it is, so I doubt I can get more like that. Which is a shame because it's a really lovely colour.

So where is the yarn that's just right? Not really sure, I will probably run out to the store this weekend to find something. If I can match that green I might do that, just use one dye lot on each mitten. I am thinking that Shetland jumperweight yarn is the right weight though, so I will do a gauge swatch with a different set of colours altogether. (I guess I can do a gauge swatch and then rip it out to try and calculate roughly how much yarn it will use.)

If you notice in the above pictures, we finally got some snow last night. It's just the right amount of snow, it's enough to look pretty, but it warmed up enough that the roads are clear.

Album of the week: Camera Obscura: Let's Get Out of this Country. It's fun, it almost has a 60's girl band sound to it in places.

Oh, and here is a piece of advice from last night: Don't try to make rice pudding from Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. I have no idea what it was converted to, Catholicism? But you need to use the heathen rice. This rice has something very weird about it, it never gets nice and soft in the pudding like it's supposed to. So we had chewy rice pudding for supper.