unfinished business

I've had two unfinished projects plaguing me for the last year: a fulled cabled headband and some fulled mittens.  They both were started with the best of intentions, as most knitting projects probably are.

The headband I started to use up extra yarn from the Red Star Mittens I made for Don.  I didn't follow a pattern, just used the cable charts from Knitty's Lia Pullover.  Well, the headband came out a smidge too big and the edges curled just a bit too much, so I fulled it in hopes that it would solve all the problems.  It didn't, though the result isn't the hugest flop out there.  I gave the headband to a friend shortly after I took these pictures and I'll think she'll get more use out of it than I would.

The mittens didn't turn out poorly on their own.  In fact I got quite a bit of use out of them this past fall as bicycling mittens.  They were just too plain for me to consider them done.  So I had plans to embroider and line them, but the dear little puppy ruined those plans plans by pulling up the bullion roses I was working on.  I'm not upset about it though because I just wasn't that into the idea anymore.

I'm just glad to be able to consider these both done and not have them looming over me anymore!

wip wednesday: tough femme

Tough Femme on Ravelry

Birthday knitting!  The pattern is the Scrunchable Scarf and it really is delightfully squishy!  It's very quick, very satisfying knitting.  I'll be sad to see this scarf go to its new owner when I'm done, but I think it will be well recieved!

snowed in

This is the lovely sight that greeted me Saturday morning when I woke up.  Thanks Nemo!

Luckily we didn't lose power, so yesterday we spent the day playing games, watching movies and struggling to clear out the driveway.

Little dog has no idea what to do with snow that's taller than her, but she likes it.  She essentially has to swim through it.  After I cleared this out a little more we made our way into the backyard.  Snuffling and lots of excitement happened there.

I've also been doing a lot of knitting while stuck inside all weekend.  I'm almost done with the second sleeve of my sweater and I bought three Melissa LaBarre patterns: the skinner hat, Avery, and crooked paths.  I bought the skinner hat pattern to use for a bad haircut hat (more on that later), and bought the other two when I saw that Melissa LaBarre is having a 25% off sale on all patterns until February 14.  Whatta Bahgain!  (Ha ha.)

Ok, now it's time to get back to doing important things like eating pancakes!

wip wednesday: bea

Bea on Ravelry

I started another Andy Satterlund pattern as travel knitting when I visited home a couple weeks ago.  I can't say that I'm feeling enthusiastic about any knitting after my Opaline knitting frenzy, but it's nice to have something small to work on.

opaline

Opaline on Ravelry

After finishing this shawl in less than week I completely lost my knitting enthusiasm! I was so obsessed with the color changes and whether or not I could get the entire thing out of the single skein of MadelineTosh that I couldn't put it down.

There isn't very much more for me to say about it besides that it was in  fact made out of one skein of Madelinetosh Pashmina, though I had to leave out the middle lace repeat on the edge.  I'm much more in love with this shawl than the last one I knit (it was triangular).  I think the curved shape makes it much more wearable.

Also in this picture is the barest hint of the blue dye I put in the tips of my hair!  Maybe pictures later?