mitten musings

I have found myself with conflicting goals. I want to duplicate the Ribe mitten as closely as I can, and I want to know how much effort is involved in making a mitten. I've realized I can't do both things at once. If I am concentrating on the size of my stitches,etc, I am working at a much slower pace than usual. The person making the original mitten was only thinking about making a good mitten. So, I have decided to make 2 mittens at the same time. One with a similarly sized commercial yarn, that I will make in a similar, but not measured style, and one with my handspun as close to the original as I can make it, based on the photographs.