Finished Two Projects!

Yay I finished two projects last night! The hubby had to work a late night so I stayed up and waited for him to get home.

The Multidirectional Scarf is finished! Here it is in all it's colorful glory:

I'm very happy with it. It was a quick and easy pattern to follow and it was a lot of fun watching the colors change from stitch to stitch on my needles. I ended up with only a tiny bit left over too! Not enough to really do much with, but too much to justify throwing it out. I'll figure something out later, but for now the remnants will live in my stash. :)

I also finished this hat, which I started a long while ago.

It's going to my brother. I knit him a wicked cool scarf a while ago, and he wanted a hat that he could wear with it. So I started this after hunting down some more alpaca yarn and then for some reason it got put on hold. The ear flaps I had to frog back because the gray was too thin to do much protection for the ears. Just doubling the yarn up made it much more substantial though. We are pleased. Just in time too! His birthday is in a few days and I was trying to figure out what to get him. I was wondering why I didn't finish this hat sooner, but everything worked out :)

Now I get to finish this! Also started almost a year ago... ^_^()


I think this will go to the hubby when finished. You can't tell from the pic, but it's a nice dark green. Alpaca with a Twist calls it Mountain Green. Knit in a simple basketweave pattern, it should go faster than it is, but apparently I can't count to 5 on a consistent basis. Oops. Oh well, it's just slow moving.

I will finish this eventually, but it's just a filler project until I get the yarn and pattern for a project my friend requested. More about that to come later. :)

A Couple of Projects

I've now been awake for two hours and it's been pretty stressful. Lets just say cleaning up doggie puke is not so fun on carpet. Yuck.

Anyway, I guess I'll start off with some of the projects I've got going on right now.

This is my Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf knit up from Noro Kureyon.

I'm using up three skeins and all the color changes are making me very happy. Since I like things to be somewhat symmetrical, the first two triangles (furthest from the needles on the right) are from Skein #1, the second two are from #2 and the middle is taking up 4 triangles. Then I'll finish up with 2 from #2 and the last 2 from #1. I hope that makes sense. Either way, the richness of the colors and the gradual changing of them is a lot of fun to knit up and well suited for this garter stitch pattern. I'm very happy with it so far. The pattern was given to me by a dear friend, but it was free online.

I just finished a pair of Red Sox socks for my dear hubby. :) They turned out great and he loves them!
I knit these up two at a time on one circular needle using the Magic Loop. Those are my tiny little feet in his socks. These socks are only the second pair I've ever knit and the first that incorporates any change in color. I was concerned about the color on the heel, but everything worked out. Yay! :)

I'll post more later. For now, I'm going to hunt down some breakfast.