I made this scarf to match my slouchy hat with the bit of sock yarn that I had left from the hat and some of the gray yarn I had left from the thermal pullover. I can't remember what inspired the stitch pattern but I think it was a scarf I saw on Ravelry.com. I decided to start from the two ends and work towards the middle so that if I ran out of yarn and had to introduce another color or something it wouldn't be just at one end.

Unfortunately I didn't plan ahead quite enough and I made both sides the same so that when I got ready to graft the two halves together the waves did not match up because instead of being complementary they were mirror images. Fortunately being the fabulous knitter that I am I was able to overcome my earlier mistake by knitting one row on each side that had only decreases and not increases to make a flat edge for grafting. It makes for a sort of funny, none matching wave in the middle of the scarf but since it is the middle everyone will just think I put it there on purpose. Well anyway that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Here is my finished hat!

Its not quite as slouchy as I'd hoped but I'm happy with how it came out and my ears are much warmer now. I increased the width of the stripes between the ribbed band and the body of the hat due to the encouragement of a friend during a marathon knitting session and then decreased their size again as I was finishing the decreasing for the top of the hat.

I tried to switch to a 'jogless' striping method about half way through the body of the hat (slip the 1st stitch of the second round of each color) but I'm not particularly impressed as the jogs are still rather visible.

Well actually the stripes don't look so bad now that I've uploaded the photo. Maybe I'll just keep this image in my mind and try to avoid looking at the back of the hat ever again. Also, I have a bit of the sock yarn that I made this hat with left over so I'm hoping if I have enough gray left over from the thermal sweater I might be able to make a matching scarf of some kind.

I started this hat this weekend when I was knitting at a friends' flat because it is getting cold here and my ears are cold on the way to work. I decided to make it out of sock yarn to try to get maximum wind protection for my ears without it being to hot although it is going quite slowly. I have about 4 inches so far and I just switched to stocking net although I haven't quite decided if I want to keep the stripes the same or maybe make them wider or narrower for the stocking net bit.

I made these socks this past winter, I don't remember exactly when I finished them but the date on the photos is November. I made them out of wool-ease and I'm reasonably happy with how they came out (from an Interweave Knits Fall 07 pattern). They aren't quite as warm as I was hoping but they do make nice lounging-around-the-house socks.

My mom is going on a trip and she wanted a wine colored hat so here it is. I had to fudge it a bit since my gauge wasn't quite right. It was supposed to be a bit slouchy and I think instead it is more of a standard hat shape but it is a pretty quick knit (which is good since i only had 2 days to make it before her trip).

This is a birthday scarf for my dad but it's a bit past his birthday. Yes, I realize there is a hole but it's a keyhole scarf so it's ok. This scarf is taking much longer than I expected but I'm finally past the halfway point.