Real cunnin', doncha think?

He's been practising! All on his own! He's been using Knitting With Balls and KnittingHelp.com because I am a less than great teacher, but he's doing so well now! He's working on a 2x2 rib and there have been a few false starts, but now he's moving the yarn properly. He's totally caught the bug, he's even coming to the next Stitch'n'Bitch.

It's nice to have a home-friend that I can sit around and knit with, now that Maddie's all the way in Manitoba and Meghan's back in Jersey. That's what we did last night, sat around and knit. I wanted a break from the Adamas (I only got two rows of the next repeat done all night), so I decided to bust some stash and cast on another little project. Cast on half-way through House Hunters, knit through Bones, House, and tied on the pompom at the end of The Bachelor:

Ta-da! My third Jayne hat, and the best looking so far. I've been using the Redshirt Knitting pattern for all three, and as you can see they all look quite different:

The first one, I just used one strand from each ball, because I was new and didn't understand the instructions. For the second one, I read too much into the instructions - 'holding two strands together' as 'double knitting'. So I taught myself double knitting, and the result was . . . shortbus. But! Now I finally have it. This has been the best Jayne hat yet. I still may give it away - it was only a three and a half hour knit, and it's not quite big enough to look right. Next try will be an XL, but I have to pick up more gold yarn. I tried to get all three colours in the recommended Red Heart, but for some reason yellow - any yellow outside the baby section - is practically impossible to find, so I went with Georga 100% Wool. A total 180 from the acrylic Red Heart, but it doesn't actually look all that bad once it's knitted up. Only thing is, the ball's about half the size, so I'm almost all out, not enough for another hat. And I promised myself no more yarn until I burn through some of this stash.

I've given up on my binary scarf. I just don't enjoy it any more. My black yarn is too scratchy, it would be so uncomfortable to wear for longer than a second, it's too wide . . . anyway, I just don't want to do any more. But I've gotten like ten rows of characters done, so I don't want to frog all my hard work. Thus, binary scarf becomes binary throw pillow! I stuffed it, sewed it, and am now in the long and irritating process of making tassels for it.

I really, really want my next project to be the Evangeline fingerless gloves, with my Sean Sheep armytage. Unfortunately, the pattern was on MagKnits, so I'm waiting for it to go up on YarnForward. I don't want to ask around Rav if anyone has a copy they could send me because I don't want to start another round of copyright wank. So until then, it's baby booties and baby sweaters as far as the eye can see.