Where's the Hat?

I like to knit things for people, and it's easier to knit things for my stepdaughters than for my own children who live with me and see all the things I work on, so I knit for them for Christmas, but this seems to be the only evidence of what I did:

That's the brim of a hat for L, the younger daughter.  I also knit an infinity scarf for S, the older one who is off in college where it is cold.  Back in the summer, when we combined houses, S was looking through some of her old stuff and found yarn that she had acquired in elementary school, when knitting was cool and her friend's mom owned a yarn shop (great friend!).  She gave me the yarn, and I thought it would be great to make her something with it.  Alas, I thought I had a picture...

The hat was quick and easy, it's this pattern: Bankhead Hat.  It's the fourth hat I've made.  My first hat was so awful, I still can't believe that the others have all fit.  Magic.

That's all for now, but I have some swatches to share of MyFriend's sweater (I need a better name for him...) and I will try to post that soon.  Plus I will soon have two completed socks for Middle!

Margie

Slackers

Well, I am way, way behind in posting.  I have completed many things since last March, so I will try to spread them out over several posts so that there's more excitement.

I think that Catherine will need to post more frequently, as she is about to be off on an adventure!

I am trying to think of things I've worked on this year.  I've been trying to get a sweater to behave to make for MyFriend, who is now MyHusband, but I'm having trouble with the gauge.  I was trying to make it in cotton, as it is hot here in Houston, but I think that's just not going to work.  I'm planning to knit a swatch in the original Shelter yarn and we'll see how that goes.

I had started socks for Middle back in the fall - there was lots of yarn acquired this summer! - and I got halfway through the first sock and she tried it on and declared it too small.  I frogged it, and started over.  I had to pause for Xmas knitting - a cowl for one stepdaughter, a hat for the other stepdaughter, a Peace Project cowl, and slippers for my mother-in-law - so that slowed me down.  I finished the Peace cowl about a week and a half ago, so it's been full steam ahead on the sock since then.  I've just got a couple of rows left on the first one.

Over the summer and into the fall, I knit a blanket for my friend/boss's daughter's new baby.  Here's one of that.  I had the yarn and needed to use it.  The first pattern I tried didn't work well, but I found this pattern at Churchmouse Yarn and Teas and thought it worked pretty well.  This is pre-blocking, which I finally have started to do.  It makes a difference!