Hats and gloves and scarves (oh my)

As promised... a view of the hat!



It's knit with Cotton-Ease, which is incredibly soft - it almost feels like suede, in a way - but it's not quite as cool as I thought it would be. My yarn tends to twist itself up as I knit, which ordinarily I could kinda deal with, except that this yarn splits very easily. Especially the brown, for some reason. It seems like it'd be a good yarn for socks, if I purposely split it and knit with only two of four plies.


After obsessively knitting that, I started my Knucks! I had done my test swatches a while back, and thought that I would be knitting a medium. A thumb, half a pinky, and 40 minutes into Heroes later, and I realized I actually needed to knit a large. It helps that, not only am I knitting these with needles a size smaller than recommended, I'm using worsted weight yarn instead of the recommended DK weight. And that I just realized the latter last night. Lesson: if you're unfamiliar with a type of yarn, look it up in order to get the best substitution.

These gloves are still going to rock, though. I'm back to having two fingers done!



The only problem is that this yarn is tweed, and I tend to pick at pills, and tweedy things remind me of pills. Maybe this yarn will help me get over that.


Speaking of gloves, I finished the first of the bf's gloves, and I may have to pick apart the bound-off edge to make it a bit larger. That should be interesting...


In other news, I've been asked to take on a large project... my first client (sort of)! A friend of mine found a website that has patterns to knit the famous scarf from back-in-the-day Doctor Who, and wanted me to knit one as a gift for someone. Rock on. Luckily, it doesn't need to be done for quite a while, so I have some time to get a job so I can buy the yarn. Not to mention pick the colors. This scarf's got some odd colors to match up...


Oh, and we're not moving until next weekend now. Drat. More time to knit (and pack?), I guess.