Manly Knitting

Not this past November, but the previous one, I decided to make my dad golf club covers for his birthday. However, the pattern I used, from Hollywood Knits, come out nothing like the picture promised. After a web search didn't pull up anything better, I decided I would make my own, at this point, for Father's Day. I got the shape down in time, but had hoped to embroider the numbers on them. Unfortunately, I had never embroidered anything in my life. With the wedding and being in Spain all summer, I had hoped that I could get the embroidery done by his next birthday this past November. While I didn't meet that goal either, I finally finished them over winter break. Only a year over my original intention. That's a long time for three little golf club covers. (It's not a trick of the camera, they are each a different size to accommodate the various club sizes).
I used navy acrylic wool with green alpaca silk for the numbers. Pattern is my own invention.

Over winter break, he also asked if I could knit him and his friend some fingerless gloves for when they go fly fishing. I found the Cigar pattern in the Knitty.com archive. They knit up quickly, and by the time I had returned from Spain, I had all four almost done.
I used Patton's 100% worsted-weight wool in olive green, a good manly, outdoorsy color. I knit the medium size with size 6 needles (one higher than the pattern called for) since that's what I had, and increased in the fingers to make them a size large. I also saved the two full fingers to finish when I got back so I could do them made-to-measure. Results: they fit like a glove :)
Gloves with fly.