Email is down. What do I do? Knit.

Of course I can't work when email is down. It didnt hurt that it was the Friday before a long holiday weekend and pretty much everyone was out of town. And when email came back up, I had only received three emails.

This story starts last Sunday.

Last Sunday, I hit an excellent yarn sale. This yarn sale was so excellent because:

1. I proclaimed to Thea an hour before that I didnt need any more yarn and I can't buy anymore. I saw the "Yarn Sale" sign and my Volvo made an abrupt left turn and I parked ilegally to sort thru the big bags of yarn.

2. The yarn sale was the product of two very nice men who live in the bright Pink house off of John. I'd always wondered who lived there. One the men was wearing a neon green and orange striped vest, with a zipper. He knit it, of course.

3. I bought four balls of yarn that retail for $8.25 a ball for $1 a piece. Rowan CashSoft. So good. I bought two balls of Espresso and two balls of Pear.

Two balls is enough to knit small projects. I've been searching for fingerless glove patterns but they all seem to be knit on double-point needles. No thanks. Many of the cool patterns also have cables. So my delimma on Friday when email was down to create an easy fingerless glove pattern and tackle cables.

I've done cables before but my issue is in the row counting, not in reading the cable pattern or working with a cable needle. Lion's Brand yarn sends out a weekly cable pattern and this weeks looked very simple. Based on their cable pattern, I wrote out my pattern for the prototype fingerless glove worked on straight needles. I've become a decent sewer and the thought of sewing straight seams doesnt scare me so much anymore. So I did a few gauge swatches, did a few arm and hand measurements and then got out my Row Counter and started.

Fingerless glove #1 came out pretty darn good and was really easy. It only took me a few hours from start to finish. I increased four stitches around the hand. I think I will skip the increases for my next pair since the yarn is pretty stretchy. I will also make them longer.