The Nalbinding Project Changes Once Again...

As the errors--and holes--pile up on my attempted pair of nalbinding socks and my yarn supply diminishes, I have, once again changed my objective!  

The state of the mittens, as of today.

I've decided to go back to making a pair of mittens.  The driving factor behind this decision is my difficulty in dealing with increasing and decreasing on the body of the sock--and extrapolating to what it will be like trying to fit heel pieces  onto what I've already done.  

On the other hand, I think I can pretty easily nalbind separate thumb pieces, and nalbind them onto each piece...ur, sock...that I have.  They may not look very nice, but I think I can complete them, and the next pair I attempt will have to be better.  Right? 

To the left is a picture of the pieces of the project to date.  Honestly, don't those look more like mittens than socks to you?  Me too.  At this point, I just want to finish them as something, and then go on to trying to make a pair of socks with different yarn--probably after buying a book about nalbinding socks (Larry Schmidt's book leaps to mind) first.