Fingerless Gloves

So I'm making my first pair of fingerless gloves. They are purple and really cute, and I've been thinking to myself "what am I going to do with them?". And then it occurs to me: Driving gloves! I've lived most of my life in Minnesota and steering wheels get cold. And sometimes I don't really want to wear my mittens that I have. So I figure that I can keep my fingerless gloves in the car and then use them as driving gloves. :)

I'm really not sure why I'm making fingerless gloves other then the fact that I'm scared to try my first sweater and am looking for projects to help build confidence in my knitting. So I thought: mittens, but then didn't have the yarn I would need, and I had this yarn that I needed to use because I've had it for almost a year now. So I used this nice light weight purple yarn to make fingerless gloves. Plus one of my friends made the comment that the coolest thing one of her friends knit was a pair of fingerless gloves. So that also made me want to try it. Then after the first glove was done I realized that I'm not punk enough to pull the gloves off in everyday wear. So I had to find some use for them. And so the idea of driving gloves was born.

On a more random note (that most of my friends will find surprising): I really like Rob Zombie's song "Living Dead Girl" and some of NIN music.