Baby It's Cold Outside

I woke up yesterday and realized...winter is here!  Gosh, when did that happen?  I immediately took to whipping up a pair of cabled mittens.

This is a really fast knit.  It has taken me a few hours (with distractions) to knit.

Here are the mittens.  I am using two balls of yarn so the mittens are thick and warm.  I have finished the right mitten and I am completing the second one now.  

Note that I have the thumb stitches on a piece of scrap yarn until I am 

ready to knit the thumb.  Also note that I am using a set of four DPNs.