Cuffs vs. Mrs. Beetons

I have a wonderful orange plaid coat from my grandmother. It's absolutely perfect through the shoulders and waist (rare!), comes to a hip mid-thigh length, but...the sleeves are short.

The plaid is a heather gray and black, so I bought a black boucle yarn and planned to knit cuffs for it. It'd make the coat "wintry", when I'd hoped to find a dark heather gray for the cuffs (with no luck), and so even though the black boucle is great, I'm a little reluctant to destine the fate of the coat that way. (I know, too much thought into this already!)

Now, some weeks back, I found Mrs. Beetons on knitty.com and made grand plans to knit some, maybe in the green shown, also some in pink, when all of a sudden last night, it occurred to me that I could knit black boucle Mrs. Beetons for winter wear of the most excellent orange plaid coat, and hold out until I find dark heather gray yarn for a different, spring/fall set of Mrs. Beetons for same coat! Woo hoo!

Once I find the dark heather gray yarn I have pictured in my head, I think I'll knit some sportier, not-so-frilly Mrs. Beetons. The black boucle ones, however, will follow the pattern.

Woo hoo for my crazy brain synapses to have come up with this solution before I had any more boucle cuff knitted or sewn onto the sleeve!

Get the knitty pattern for Mrs. Beeton undercuffs here.