So, Alan Dart wrote back. I was rather surprised. He told me I didn't read the pattern notes correctly. Hmmm- so it is. Well, he is English, it's so hard to understand the English- they are so . . . English! Why can't they just write plain American? Can you spell ethnocentric? I'm not really- everyone is beatuiful, in his own way. Even those of us who don't know how to knit hands.

He was really nice about telling me how to read the patten though- he said go ahead and make Halloween hands for everyone. I haven't finished a hand yet, but I did get past that first row of sorrows.

Fingers and pictures to come.