Back in early November, when I was down at the yarn shop one weekend, I saw a skein of dk yarn I really liked - it's one of the Dream in Color yarns; I think the colorway was called Time Away. I found a simple fingerless mitt pattern (it was one designed where you could insert a colorwork pattern - and I guess I get free access to those patterns since I bought the pattern). I just wanted simple mitts but this one worked because it took the right amount of yarn (it wasn't inexpensive yarn and I didn't want to need to buy two skeins)
I finished them over break
It's a clever design: you knit them in the round up to the point where you want the opening for the thumb, and then you knit back and forth for a while ("knit flat") and then rejoin in the round after the thumb hole is done.
it leaves like a little "keyhole" for your thumb:
Even though they're designed for colorwork, they work for plain yarn. I think a person could also insert some textured patterns (like knit/purl patterns) in it, and they might even be loose enough to support a small cable up the back, but if you wanted to do a lot of cables, or a really large (wide) cable, you might need to add stitches (and you'd have to adjust how you worked it during the knit-flat part)
They're also nice and warm - a heavier yarn and no lacy openings to let the wind in
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