I was just looking through my FO’s on Ravelry and realised how many little projects I never blogged or never posted finished photos of.

Pattern: The Do-It-Yourself Peasant Cap from Melodypants (Ravelry link only until she finishes her website)
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk in some lilac colour

Really easy, and I love it. The yarn is so snuggly, and the 1×1 ribbing part came so squishy and dense. I can’t always figure out where to wear the brim though. If I play with it too much, my hair gets awfully staticky.

Pattern: Fetching
Yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca in Mahogany Mix and Potting Soil Mix

My sister works in an office that often resembles a meat locker. My mother was knitting her a very large blanket-esque wrap holding these yarns double stranded (yes, there are two colours there, but I only used the second one on the picot bind off). I thought she might like some fingerless mitts to keep her frigid hands warm. I didn’t alter the pattern except to take the recommended needle size down to 3.5mm (US5) to accommodate for her exceptionally narrow hands. I didn’t know if she’d wear them because I sort of assumed that she might have asked by now, but she LOVES them, and wears them all the time.

Pattern: Bird in Hand Mittens by Kate Gilbert
Yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca in Winter White and Lavender Mix
Size: Medium (2.75mm/US2 needles)

Well, as hard as it was knitting three mittens only to end up with a pair was frustrating, but I absolutely needed to reknit the whole right-hand mitten. Going up just that one needle size made all the difference, and the shred of optimism in me saw that knitting the first one was good practice to get my stranding technique down better to knit two mittens that didn’t look amateurish. I really do like this yarn, despite being a bit splitty. It makes very soft and warm objects. I would definitely use it again, possibly for a cardigan as I don’t think it’s soft enough to wear next to my sensitive skin.

I also finished my Palindrome scarf. But I started wearing it before I took photos! I never blocked it, but when I wash it when the winter is over, I might see if blocking does anything for it and I’ll take pictures then.

And now here’s a WIP.

This is the top I’m making with my Duet yarn from Brooks Farm. I’m making it up as I go. It’s a top-down raglan, if that was obvious from the photo. Thus far, all I know is that it will have a V neck. The raglan increases have baby cables running down them, but they’re sadly less obvious than I would have liked. This yarn isn’t poofy enough to allow the cables to stand out. But the twist is still obvious so it looks pretty. I learned how to do a left leaning baby cable to balance the right baby cables so the twists compliment each other. I am very undecided about how I want the collar to look, and I don’t think I’m going to put any embellishment across the middle for fear of it resembling the SKB too much. Once I join the V and add bust darts, I will consider my options, but I want this to be a fiarly simple top. I want something suitable for everyday wear.