Got some catchin' up to do.

Holy crap. Well, we actually have internet now. And then the camera cord went missing, and then I got a job I greatly dislike and haven't felt like blogging... yeah.

Anyway, I finally forced myself to sit down and finish the Marigold hat last week. I had started the Clapotis hat after freeing up a row counter, then realized I needed more stitch markers - most of which were sitting on my Marigold hat.
Ignore the bad hair; I had the day off and didn't feel like going out (not to mention that I just kinda shoved the hat on my head for the obligatory picture without making sure my hair looked okay).



Yep. Not as lacy-looking as the hat in the pattern, but I guess that's what happens when you use a furry yarn. I also tried blocking it to the right size (8" high), since it came out looking short, and it still ended up being kinda short. Not sure if that's due to the yarn combos or not, too. I still like how it came out, though.

And, like I said, I started the Clapotis hat. I realized that I like making/wearing hats more than I'm able to wear them. Stupid work. But anyway.



This yarn (Joann's Angel Hair) is kinda hard to knit with. It's definitely not the hardest - that award probably goes to Fun Fur being used by an inexperienced knitter - but the little angel hair strands like to knot together. Kinda like Fun Fur, actually. So, although I generally like the yarn so far, it's definitely something you'll want to use when you're sure of what you're doing, cause it's not getting unraveled.

Next project: the Linked Rib scarf.




And, you can clearly see (in both shots, no less!) where I screwed up and slipped stitches purlwise instead of knitwise. Or vice versa. I can't remember right now. That's probably a bad thing. I'm pretty pleased with how the color scheme is turning out on this, though. For some reason, I couldn't tell how crappy the variegated shades of Paton's would turn out, but after seeing this, as well as a knitted sample of another shade made by one of my coworkers, I have good faith in them.

Now for my other current project: what I'm calling the Paw scarf. A while ago, I started a scarf loosely based on another pattern, and the bf said it looked like Grover's paw, etc. Here's a reminder.



Well, ignore that, because I ripped it all apart. To make this!




It's a scarf, but with mitten-y ends! It came out quite a bit more paw-like than I was expecting, and I'm pleased with that. Once I finish, I may post the pattern here.

But first, there's another pattern I may post sooner, because I started a new project today (sigh) and finished it within a few hours. The bf came home on his lunch break and said the back of his cell phone was starting to fall off, so I decided he needed a cozy for it (even if he didn't seem that thrilled with the idea of having a phone cozy). I looked at a few patterns online, and very few were meant to fit flip phones, much less meant for a guy. (I did like the Poptart Razr cozy, though, even if I hate Razrs.) And, using some of the leftover green yarn from the hat I just finished, here's what I came up with:



Basically, a phone sock. That's not a seam at the bottom, though. That's where I somehow narfed up while weaving one of my ends in. And didn't notice until after I'd already cut the yarn tail, of course. Grr. Anyway, the bf liked it more than even he expected, except that he was the only person he knew who owned a phone cozy. I replied that that's what happens when you date a knitter, duh. But yeah, I wrote the pattern down, so I might post it sometime tomorrow.

In other news, I found a "pattern" for a car cozy, and I swear there was another link I wanted to share, but I can't remember. Shh, it's getting late for me these days.

Lastly, learning to knit is apparently hard work.



(Is this worthy of submission to Stuff On My Cat?)