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Last month I knitted a pair of fingerless gloves for my dad, but because of all of our various camera troubles, I wasn't able to take a picture of the completed pair until this evening. I used the Knucks pattern from knitty's summer issue, without any embroidered embellishment (although I was briefly tempted to put on "shiznit!").

I don't think I can adequately express exactly how much I loved knitting these gloves. It was such an interesting pattern. You knit all of the fingers and the two thumbs separately and then join them together to knit in the round, so essentially the pattern works from the top down. Often when using double-pointed needles I would pull out four of them and look at the lone fifth one, stuck in the package, never to see the light of day other than to wish its friends luck. I even started wondering why they sold them in fives. Then came the Knucks pattern. There's not much wiggle room after you join the fingers, so out came the fifth needle, practically squeeing with glee over finally being made use of. Here's four of them in action:

It took a few minutes to get comfortable with all of those sharp sticks pointing in every direction, but eventually I did. Here's a shot of the gloves right before the thumb got in on the action:

I used my beloved Rowan Felted Tweed in Cocoa (it's a great color, cocoa brown with flecks of blue) and knit the largest size. Working a few hours every night, it took about a week to make them. Also, because my dad's not a frilly guy, I chose to do the ribbed cuff instead of the textured version. Here's the finished product:

Bonus: Look below if you'd like to get a better idea of what half of my genetic code is like...