Yarnification

…and therefore I am making those fingerless gloves in crochet. I don’t have a pattern; I figure it can’t be that hard. I have two skeins of this fantastic mohair blend yarn, not sure what weight, maybe sock/fingering weight, maybe sport but I don’t think it’s that thick, and I’m working it up with a G hook (that would be an E or an F to the rest of you) in spiral rounds of hdc. Will figure out the parts that aren’t just a tube when I get to them. If I can do socks, then I can do this, right? I needed to do something, anyway. My hands hurt.

I’m still tempted to take my 40% off one item coupon and go to Joann’s and get a cable needle because the Irish Hiker wrist warmer pattern is calling to me.

But now, see, the problem here? Is that I can’t purl to save my life. Everything goes great till I start trying to purl, and suddenly the stitches are all squidged up together and twisted all around and everything’s getting way too tight and there are holes—holes!—appearing out of nowhere and I become filled with despair and frog the whole thing. I have downloaded a bunch of videos from knittinghelp.com but have not yet had the time to stare at them to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Maybe this will make me feel better about knitting. It’s terribly cute, and it’s done on a circular needle with no purls to be found anywhere.