I figured that my ugly curling finger gap (no, it's not a medical condition) might be cured by using a flat stitch pattern around the slit. I settled on a seed stitch. Now it really looks like a frog, but the gap is much less... gappy. Awww, how cute. Garh! This gap is too gappy too, and refuses to close up when the fingers are withdrawn. Some tweaking still remained to be done. At this point, it dawned upon me that I could perhaps just make a regular mitten, and insert a wide buttonhole for the fingers to peep out of? Plus, by designing my own pattern, I could work it in the round, as opposed to the Debbie Bliss pattern which is inexplicably knit flat (huh?). And astute readers will notice that the tip of the second mitten is now less pointy than in the first version - that's right, instead of decreasing to the tip, I decreased until 20 stitches remained and grafted the top together with kitchener stitch. I think it looks a lot better, especially since the yarn is quite bulky. See, I wasn't trying to torture you with the kitchener stitch, it really does work better for this mittens. In my not-so-humble opinion. That's not to say that I'll hold you down and make you kitchener your Peekaboos, but I will tsk tsk tsk a little bit.