experience you have gained from making other garments.
I think that having some painted and some plain mittens adds to the variety you can offer when selling :DI like those mittens very much, and the fact they're half hand half machine knitted makes this an inspirational post to me, @kimmac. Of course I totally appreciate the effort gone into them regardless of whether they're machine made or not as I know what's involved in setting up and getting things right. I think it's not luck what you had but
Thanks @crytocariad. I did some lace ones on the machine last year, so I might do that again for even more variety.