As many of you know hubby is going through treatment for bowel cancer. Every 3 weeks he has the cancer drugs directly into a vein in the back of his hand. He's been finding that immediately after treatment the area on the back of his hand where the needle was inserted is very painful. He has to wear warm clothes to leave the cancer centre but today he couldn't tolerate a glove on his hand he had to have it hanging off his fingers. Over the weeks I've tried various ways of adapting gloves to ease the pain. But now I think he may be more comfortable with a large loose mitten instead of a glove so I'm going to make him some. I prefer crochet but think it will be to 'open' and not warm enough. I can knit so will attempt that.
So...........
1. Can anyone point me in the direction of a pattern?
2. It needs to be a large mitten that is loose at the wrist. All the gloves I've tried have had elastic at the wrist and it's too painful pulling it on. So can you advise me on how to adapt the pattern to make the wrist bigger.
For a few days after treatment he needs to keep his hand warm otherwise it sets off pain in his hand and up his arm so I'd like to knit one mitten today - the second one doesn't need to be finished until his next treatment when they'll put the drugs in the other hand.
Thanks for any help you can offer.