I love these gloves!!!

There's one thing I love about knitting.  Now I can see someone wearing something and I can make it.  Anyway, on New Year's Eve, Blake Lewis performed on one of the countdown shows.  He was wearing the most awesome wool scarf and fingerless gloves!  I figured that I was the only one who cared, but then found the forums abuzz with love not only for the performance but about the scarf and gloves.



A friend dropped Blake a message to ask where he got the scarf and he said that he got it in Scotland.  No luck... can't make a trip to Scotland for a scarf... but I *can* make the gloves!  It's Bethy to the rescue!  She loved the gloves, too, and has an original pattern that she's tweaking.  To make a long story short (too late) I finally got to start on them yesterday.  You can also read a bit of my conversation with rzonmrcury in this way-too-dark picture :)



I'm using Susan Bates size 6 Quicksilver circular needles.  The yarn isn't as dark as it appears in the picture.  It's 100% alpaca, sport-weight yarn from Frog Tree.  It's 005 at the bottom of this chart:


So I'm only just starting, but they're coming along nicely.  I'll update when I've gotten farther up the hand.

So what are your arts & hobbies?  Tell me about them!