Tatted Cross

I've done a little tatting the last few days.  This is the Large Cross from Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns.  It's pretty large - over 6" long.  It's made in Lizbeth size 20 in Caribbean.

I'm afraid that my knitting has not been so successful.  I knit about 3" on one of  the mittens I was making for Girl Far From Home and then decided it was going to be too small.  So I ripped it out and started again on the next size up needle (a size 6).  That got about 2" and it was clear that it wasn't going to be enough bigger to actually fit a human hand.  So I ripped it and went up another needle size (we are at 7 now) and knit about 4", far enough to have changed colors on the background.  That was looking too big, so I put my hand in it.  Yup.  Too big.  Too big for a large man's hands, let along a young lady's small hand.  So I've now ripped it again and started over on a size 6 needle again.  I've only knit about 4 rows because these mittens are knit from the fingertips up and the increase rows take longer than the regular rows.  I'm getting really tired of knitting these fingertips over and over and the yarn is getting fuzzy too.  I haven't taken any pictures of the progress I've made so far and all of it has been ripped so there is no evidence (except the fuzz on the yarn).  Maybe I'll have enough done to get a picture tomorrow.