Instead of sewing my afghan squares together, I made these:

From this free pattern (click the photo below to go to the pattern) (Argh–cue angry pirate sounds–wordpress is deleting my links so I put a hard copy below the picture.  You’ll have to cut and paste):

http://bethsco.blogspot.com/2011/11/ripple-lace-fingerless-gloves.html

I like them in a color better than white.  It takes some of the saccharine sweetness out of it.  But white was my only sport weight yarn in stash and I was still resting from an illness while I stitched.  This pattern is super fast and I was able to complete a pair of gloves in a couple of hours.  (They’d be good for stocking stuffers if you have a tween or teen, or trendy teacher on your list.)