Finished another hat!

So my plow through the WIPs plan seems to be going well. I've just finished up my 3rd WIP & have not cast-on anything new during that time period. This is the hat I just finished up.

It's not yet blocked & I'm not sure if I want the button like that or straight, will think on it for a day or so. It's an wool & alpaca blend. Overall it's soft, but with my alpaca issues I thought it was itchy, lol. It's a single ply yarn so will be interesting to see how it blocks up, for some reason single plys sometime seem to fluff up on me when I wash them.

Squee! It's Done!

The boring hat of hate is done! :D I had no clue a hat could be that boring. It's just out of the wash & it's drying on my counter so pardon the ugly picture.

So now I need to figure out which super boring project to knit next. I think I'm going to work on the alpaca blend hat. I can't do a ton on it at a time due to it making me itch, but I'd like to get it done.

As you can clearly see I haven't done much of anything on it yet, I've not even finished the band. Now to decide if I ought to be responsible & knit this or be irresponsible & cast-on a new hat...

Bored

I am so bored & dislike this black hat. It's boooorrrrriiiinnnnggggg! It's just 2x2 rib on yarn I don't like, round after round of it. I have another 3.5", so that's 10-11 rounds. Should be done in no time at all, but it sucks me in to a parallel time vortex where time ceases to move while I knit. This hat hates me. I've promised myself I can knit another beret/tam hat if I finish this today. If I do it will mean I finished 2 out of the stack of WIPs & I'm about 90% sure I will be frogging one of the other ones & about 70% sure I'm going to frog another. I had recounted the WIPs & were are actually 12 not the 9 I thought; 1 (the red mitts) got finished & if I can manage to finish the world's most boring hat then I'll be down to 10, frog up those 2 I'm disliking more than this hat & I'll be down to 8.

First Spring in a New House

We moved here in Feb & first looked at this house in Nov (I think), therefore we never saw what plants were here, so this spring has been fun. I tried to figure out what the bulbs on the side of the house were when they started coming up, but could not. Turns out they were Irises & I didn't even see that there were smaller ones too & those were Lily of the Valley. You can't see the Lily of the Valley in this pic since it's so much shorter.

We sadly do have wasps up here & as I'm allergic I'm not fond of them & wish death to them. Look at the bottom of this trap & you can see one is just going in. :D

On the knitting front, I'm slowly, slowly working on a simple ribbed hat. The picture is totally blown out, sorry.

Lady in Red

I seem to pick red for most anything I knit for myself, not sure why since I think greens & blues look better on me. Any I did get the thumbs on my mitts & they are all washed & blocked.

Yes, they are different sizes & yes that is what I was going for. I have 2 different sized hands so I wanted to have mitts that fit each hand properly. I think next time I make something like this I will go for the same length even though they would hit different spots on my arms.

My sweater is chugging along slowly but surely.

Still a long way to go, but I've a while til I'll need it.

It's not easy being Green

My green hat is all wash, blocked & dried.

I think it came out great, it's my mom's Mother's Day gift (a bit late) & I am hoping she'll like it.

I also picked up the Gaenor I've been working on for a million years. It's not a slow knit, in fact it should be a really fast knit. I am tweaking the pattern a bit, I want more of a scarf/shawl combo than a true shawl so I am doing only about 1/2 the increases & then just knitting it with out the increases for a while.

I never did get to putting the thumbs on those mitts the other day. Shh, don't tell the knitting gods I've been a slacker.

Finishing things

I have 9 WIPs, I feel like that's kind of a lot, I had about 5 more. 1 got finished up (the green hat, it's drying now, pics another day) & I frogged 3 more. I have 1 shawl I'm deciding if I'll finish or frog.

I have a lot of yarn I want to knit or projects I want to try, but I think it's best if I try to finish some of these WIPs. I have my red sweater, the red burp cloth, the red baby blanket, a blue dalak washcloth, some fingerless gloves (which only need the thumbs put on), a pair of scrap yarn socks using the Yarn Harlot's sock recipe, a pair of No Purl Monkey socks, a Gaenor shawl, a cute hat, a pair of socks I'm writing a pattern for & I think I'm missing something else. (Please no one use your powers of counting to see that's more than 9.)

I also have some yarn I'm meh about, so I'd like to find a simple project (probably a hat or instant scarf) to use it up & get it out of the stash & in to the gift pile. Plus of course, there are the left overs from other projects that need to get used up.

I should have no trouble finishing up the fingerless gloves today, just 2 thumbs. I think the burp cloth will become a washcloth so it gets done & I will probably frog out the baby blanket since I hate the yarn with the passion of a thousand burning suns & then will maybe use it to make some of my plain hats. Should be less horrid to knit a few small projects with it rather than one giant one. The shawl I'm on the fence about I'll probably frog & do another one I was thinking about, but I won't do that til I finish the Gaenor shawl I've been working on for a while.

Crap while trying this up I've thought of 3 more WIPs. Crap.