Where did the hats go?

I love knitting hats, problem is, I do not wear hats, so I seldom knit them. Or at least that is what I think, but then I made 10 last year and 8 this year. I wonder where they went.



From left to right, Cash Vero Ribbed Hat,Winter Night Crossroad Hat, Serengeti Fetching Hat

Fourth, Fifth ......

Ok, I am not counting anymore, but here what I have finished lately:

Alpaca Hats





Yarns: Baby Suri Alpaca & Silk (Solids) by Misti Alpaca, Inca Alpaca by Classic Elite Yarns, Melange by Blue Sky Alpacas
Pattern: Basic Hat and Mitten Set for Children #253 by Diane Soucy
Ravelry project page here.

Black Socks for My Dad



Yarn: Superfine Superwash Sport Merino by Lisa Souza

Pattern: Gentleman's Matrimony Celebratory Socks by Sockbug
Ravelry project page here.

Ingenue



Yarn: Aurora 8 by Karabella

Pattern: Ingenue by Wendy Bernard
Ravelry project page here.

March Finally

I am so glad February is over, I just do not like that month. It is too short and with ski week smack in the middle, even more. And the peak of the flu season, so everybody gets sick. Really, really happy is March now!

Update on Ariann [Ravelry link]: the wonderful of Little Knits sent me two more balls of Queensland Uruguay DK [Ravelry link], even matching the dye lots - yippee! I can now finish Ariann, in fact I have been working on it no stop. I will probably only need one extra ball, just you know, just in case.

This latest incident of yarn shortage made me think about my yarn habit.
Should I stop buying yarn in I do not have a project for it so that I buy the right quantity? This would not have prevented the Ariann problem, because I did have the right quantity according to the pattern.
Should I try and use the yarn I buy in a reasonable time frame so that it does not become impossible to match dye lots if I need more? I have yarn in my stash whose photo I took in 2005! Don't know why, but yarn sitting in my stash for more than 2 years bugs me and makes me feel guilty. Poor yarn, waiting and waiting for my attention! So next project will be with the last 3 balls of my first Karaoke (July 2005) - does that sound like a wine?

While waiting for Ariann's yarn, I made a baby hat [Ravelry link]:


Yarn: LuLu's Yarns TM Sock in Ciclamini (double) - 1/3 of a skein

A scarf [Ravelry link]:


Yarn: Baywood Yarns Luxury Sock & Shawl in Summer Sunser and Karabella Gossamer (1/2 skein each)
Pattern: Jan's Sensational Scarf [Ravelry link]

And I finally put the fringe on my Multidirectional Scarf [Ravelry link]:


Yarn: Lang Yarns Mille Colori - 3 balls
Pattern: Multidirectional Scarf by Karen Baumer

First FO's of 2008

Since I seldom knit for myself, here you go, the first two FO's of 2008 are not for me.

Cardigan for my niece, in Universal Yarn Classic Worsted and Tango; as I said before, I did not care for the Classic Worsted (too much acrylic in it), but my sister will be able to throw it in the washer. The Tango, on the other hand, is a hoot.

More pictures here.

Basic Cable Hat by Christine Quirion, from Stitch 'N Bitch Nation, take 2.
I first knit this hat following the pattern, and it came out about a newborn size.
So I frogged, re-knitted it adding more repeats, and I ran out of yarn.
So I frogged, changed yarn, added more repeats, changed the ribbing so that it would flow into the pattern, and Principessa loves it.

Sock Yarn Shawl

Since I have about 20 projects or so due soon for various reasons, I am completely enamored with the one that I am knitting just because:



Your basic top down shawl, a basket full of all my leftover sock yarns, no plan but changing the yarn every ten rows. There has been other knitting too, a present due tomorrow afternoon is done (with about 18 hours to spare!):



Pattern by Fawn Pea, available here, I used one skein of Hill Country Yarns Sweet Feet in Periwinkle, doubling it, and about half ball of Fibranatura Sensational.



A hat to go with these, and tiny tiny socks for a bookmark (pattern by Cat Bordhi here):



But I keep going back to my shawl, and I like it so much that I am going to have a contest about it - come back tomorrow (or Monday.)

One, two, three

One: two balls of Anny Blatt Super Angora and 2 balls of Anny Blatt Victoria give you a set of scarf and hat so fast they did not make into the "on the needles" list before going into the "Finished Projects 2007."



Two: another baby set, 1 skein of Lorna's Laces Worsted and some leftover sock yarn.



Three: another project from my UFO Resurrection 2007 list done.