I came up with this pattern for two reasons:
1) I wanted to create a pattern for people that want to make fingerless gloves, but haven’t yet learned to knit in the round.
And…
2) I wanted to create something with this particular yarn which is really pretty, but which has not sold very much in the LYS where I work. I know that sometimes people need to see a yarn worked up before they realize they’d really like to knit with it!

1/10/13
Updated pattern to include yarn amounts.