My list of FO's that I have no picture of:

Yellow Dishcloths for Josh and Abby
Head kerchiefs for Andi & Susan, last summer's WSOP girls
Flip flop covers for the WSOP girls
Bag in Berrocco Denim Silk for Kie's 21st Birthday
Fingerless Mitts I gave Kristie for Christmas
2 Baby hats (Wiley and Hunter)
Straps added to Mara's gloves

A WIP Par-tay!

My intended for my clover lace wrap - Rowan 4 ply cotton in midnight. It's so yummy! I've swatched and I have my needles; I've just been working on other stuff the past few days, hoping to get some wear out of my hat and scarf this winter. I want to start the wrap sometime this week.



This is the balled yarn for my rendition of the Julia scarf I saw in my LYS. This is Cascade 220, and I will have enough leftovers for a hat or two, and that makes me quite happy!


I find it facinating how the bright yarns mellow each other out. I never would have expected it. I've contemplated ripping back and creating a wide striped scarf, but it's growing on me so I think I'll keep it this way.



My coronet from Knitty in Cascade 220. This is my first cabled project and I thought it went rather well. It's a fun carry along project. The kitchner was fun and stress-free thanks to the video on knittinghelp.com!


This is my Shapely Tank in progress. I'm using an acrylic/wool blend found in my LYS's sale bin. Great deal at under $20 and I love the color!

FO on Parade!

My first sweater, which I finished up the other night. I'm still not crazy about how the arms attached, but it looked great on me and wore comfortably, so I can't really complain too much. I used the set-in sleeve pattern from the Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns and worsted merino from handpaintedyarn.com knit at 3 sts/inch. It fits great!


Close-up of sweater arm



This is my favorite FO ever! It's a scarf made with 3 skeins of Plymouth Baby Alpaca DK on size six needles in a reversible stitch pattern. The scarf pattern, from Plymouth, came free with yarn purchase from NeedleNook in Atlanta, GA. It's so soft and yummy! I worked on it constantly for the first week of Christmas break. It's the only "perfect" item I've ever done! :)



The stitch pattern for my favorite scarf. At an hour per ten row repeat, I'm still amazed at how fast I finished it.



These fingerless mitts were knit from a pattern in Weekend Knitting. They're in bulky luxury cashemere from AC Moore (a lovely blend). The yarn was fun to knit with and they knit up fast. The one on top wound up an inch longer than the one on bottom - it was knit over Christmas break while the other during a basketball game. Oops! I wound up frogging the longer one and reknitting it during another Wolfpack game on TV to achieve similar tension.


This felted hat was made out of Cascade 220 using a Fibertrends pattern. I love it but need to felt it just a tad more to make it work out right.



My Zeeby's bag in Cascade 220. I learned how to knit backward on the never-ending gusset, so that was fun. Sometimes I play with the idea of felting this guy because it seems so floppy. I did sub in yarns and I wonder in the Lamb's Pride worsted has more inherent shape as a single ply than the Cascade does.

I'm hoping to get around to adding pictures of all my FOs sometime in the next few weeks. Here's an almost FO - my first booga bag. I finished knitting it in November and felted it in december. This is pre-felting.


And here it is, post-felting.

Today I went to Great Yarns with Emily. In the store they had a sample scarf that was simple but gorgeous - it was five strands of Goddess Yarn's Julia held together and knit in garter stich on size 19s. The play of the colors against each other was fabulous. Since I can't afford a $35 scarf, I picked three of my favorite colors in it. Then I realized that for the same price, I could get the same colors in Cascade 220 and have leftovers to play with. It feels a little different, being 100% wool instead of wool/alpaca/mohair, but I LOVE Cascade passionately so I think it was an awesome deal. I've balled one skein and have two to go.

I also restarted coronet on Friday night, and it's going great. The second booga bag in progress is on the back burner for now. I hit gauge on the Clover wrap using size 1's. Which means I'll need 0's for the ribbing - yikes! But as long as I have $texas in the yarn already, I figure it'll be a good challenge and will look more flattering on me than anything bulky.

Speaking of bulky-ish things, I redid the shoulder seams on the heavy-worsted weight sweater I finished the knitting on last week. Tomorrow night I'm hoping to get up the gusto to at least attach the sleeves, then seam the sides the next day. Why didn't I knit this thing in the round?!?

I caved and am finally starting a blog just for my knitting.

This is just a sign of my long, slow descent into old yarn lady. I may only be 22 right now, but if I'm unmarried by forty, I will probably have a house with several cats and rooms full of yarn. I'm thinking at least one room for wools, another for cottons. Maybe Cascade 220 can have its own room. Novelty yarns get the hall closet. I'm not too fond of them.

Current WIPs:
A set-in sleeve sweater - needs seaming then DONE!
Booga Bag #2 - I-cord done, just a few rows from picking up and starting in the round
Coronet from Knitty - one repeat of the cable done, my first cable ever
Shapely Tank - Six inches in
Clover Wrap from SnB Nation - swatching

I also have yarn ready and at attention for:
Socks
Wristies

And am lusting after:
A cute but light wrap or shrug.