Here's some historical perspective for you, i.e., the birth of the Peekaboo Mittens! I actually came up with the design after attempting to make some truly horrible convertible mittens. I used the Debbie Bliss Flip-top mittens pattern from the Winter 2006 Interweave Knits subscriber-only patterns website (that's a mouthful). There's no schematic included with the pattern, so I just followed the pattern and ended up with this: Not bad, not bad. Until you flip it over. The bound-off edges that form the finger slit curl terribly, producing a mitten that looks more like a sneering frog than an adorable winter accessory. So no, I didn't get these mittens from the Gap. They just feature an ugly tremendous gap. Hmmmm... what to do?