knitters: HALP!

When I first started knitting socks, I found basic patterns and followed them carefully and so on, like you do. I'm comfortable enough now that I can fly on my own with sock knitting - which is good, because I seldom if ever use the yarn that the pattern recommends, you know, like you do, and I have wicked high insteps and I tend to like the legs of my socks one pattern repeat shorter than the designers do, etc., etc.

I now have some fabulous yarn that College Roommate K sent me for my birthday (that was what was in the FedEx the other day!), with which I hope to make a pair of fingerless gloves. In fact I hope to make fingerless gloves and a skinny scarf, but I can handle the scarf on my own. In fact I hope to make convertible fingerless gloves and a skinny scarf, but I've got [checks again] 375 yards of sock yarn and that may not be enough, so the convertible-ness may have to go by the wayside.

BUT ANYWAY. I've been searching and searching for a basic roll-your-own fingerless-gloves pattern, and I can't find one. I can find lots of patterns with lots of foofera, which, okay, I could ignore the foofera, but what all that does to gauge and so on I'm not quite confident of accounting for, if you see what I mean, so I'd prefer a plain one. And I can find lots of basic get-you-started patterns for fingerless mittens, but that's not what I want. To clarify: I want these things to have fingers, just not fingertips - and I certainly can't start with a wrist-warmer pattern and improvise the fingers, because it's the many-fingers aspect of the thing that I'm least sanguine about.

Who has basic instructions for me? neotoma? sneezer222? Anyone?

i will watch Doctor Who in the morning.

Just home from the curling club's 50th anniversary gala. A nice evening. (And then as I was leaving I heard an old man, whom I'd had a brief conversation with earlier, ask Smug Bastard "Does your wife curl too?" And I was five or six steps further toward the door when I heard SB say "But she does curl", which means what he'd said in between was not, as I would have expected, something like "Oh, I'm not married", but something like "No, that's not my wife", because apparently the old man was talking about me. [amused facepalm] Of course there was a time when that would have had me pretty wigged out. As it is, right now I'm just wondering how or when I'm going to be able to make a plan to get together again with The Guy From Tuesday.)