Yes people, finally, not one, but TWO finished objects for your enjoyment.

1-my friend’s baby blanket (hopefully she’s not reading this, but if she is, hopefully she doesn’t know it’s for her )

That was the RS. Now here’s the WS.

While I’ve gotten the hang of the log cabin knitting (not that it’s too hard, but still, this was a different pattern than the last time), this was the first time I got to use intarsia with the two colours. It worked out pretty well, see for yourself:

#2-my center square touque from Knitty.com. Tada!

(you’ll have to forgive the self-portrait done in the mirror, but you get the idea.)

Here’s another photo:

You’ll notice that the circles are a bit fuzzy, which is because I continued the ribbing all the way through the touque. That was actually a mistake on my part in reading the pattern, but that’s okay, it still turned out all right. Now Carrie was wondering if the hat was more stretchy because I was knitting it inside out in an earlier post, and I wasn’t sure. Turns out that yes, it is a bit stretchier than I’d like, but at least I know that it fits over my head, and in fact, comes down far enough to actually cover all my ears, which is great. I was talking about this with my sister the other day, and she mentioned that it was because of the way I was knitting the hat, inside out instead of right side out, and while I didn’t quite get what she meant exactly, I figured it was another “mistake”, and I’ll sort it out for the next touque.

All in all I quite enjoyed this project, and oh! I almost forgot! I used the magic loop method to finish off the touque as I didn’t want to buy size 11 dpns, and I must say it worked out nicely. It got a little difficult at the end so I just pulled out one of my other big needles and helped to finish off the stitches. I was doing it with my Denise kit needles, and I think that it would work better with thinner cables. I found the thick ones included in the Denise kit stretched things a tad (not much, but it was noticeable), so I think with thinner cables this would’ve been avoided. But again, the magic loop method definitely made my life easier and saved me some cash.

And since the weather has gotten terribly cold right now here in the Big Smoke (it’s currently -15C, which is 5F), and so any extra thick layers are most welcome. I’ve also just finished mapping out a slip-stitch scarf pattern using the book Monika mentioned a while ago in this post. I’ll probably cast on that one tonight while watching House, or while watching Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica, my latest obsession. (Don’t laugh, it’s really good!) I’ll keep you posted on the scarf as it goes.