My very first success with two color knitting on double pointed needles, I can hardly believe it.  I had tried this no less than five times before, all ending in total disaster.  I have so many things I want to share that I learned for others trying to get the hang of this.  First, the Koigu is dreamy, its soft, its silky, and it slips so easily on and off the bamboo needles (Crystal Palace), making the experience so much more pleasurable for me compared to scratchy wool.  I am so ecstatic to find a Fair Isle yarn that works well for a warm weather climate!  In all my other attempts at doing this, I would get either a gaping hole where the needles meet, or my float would be too tight, causing that area to get very puckery.   Essentially, the section at the joins was giving me all the trouble in the past.  I think I finally overcame the problem by knitting the first stitch on the next needle before changing to the new needle to prevent the hole from developing but now I have a whole new problem.  Can you see the line that was created where I picked up the first stitch from the new needle before changing needles?  I think I didn’t tighten things up enough and didn’t notice it for something like 15 rows!  I am hoping blocking will help some.  It happened on the side where the thumb will be so I’m happy to live with it rather than rip back.  I was surprised at how much green and blue would show up in the multi koigu, I thought there would be more pinks and orange so it was a little bit not what I wanted but this is just for practice and hopefully there will be many more fun options to work with in the future.  This pattern was great for a beginner because only the cuff is done in two colors (Folk Knitting in Estonia by Nancy Bush.)  Nancy’s patterns do not offer a full charted design for the whole mitten, just the pattern repeat, so I chose this one to keep things simple while I got the hang of doing this on dpn’s.  Her book is one of my favorite mitten books and I liked it much better than the Latvian mitten book.  Her instructions are much better, and I felt more supported as a new knitter with all the great details Nancy included in her book.