Cowl

Last night I finished a big cabled cowl for my friend Nick. Hopefully I can get a picture of him wearing it, it would look a lot more stylish that way.

Carrot Top

Just finished this hat, a gift for my mom. Powering through project after project, yay winter!

Little Multicolored Riding Hood

My dear friend Matte was in town for winter break and she loved the blue hood I knit a few weeks ago. I decided to make one for her, so we went yarn shopping. We got the discount yarn store to open especially for us on a Monday night and we found beautiful German variegated yarn for the tassel and regular black for the hood. It turned out great!

2 weeks, 2 head coverings

Even though it's been Christmas and a trip to San Francisco, I managed to get 2 super cool hats done over the last 2 weeks. Fun!

Little Blue Riding Hood! A great hood with a cabled band.

The same pattern I used for my friend's purple hat and the Ultralingua penguin hat, a really soft grey 6-cable hat with ear flaps and pom-pom.

So glad I have found ways to make winter fun and stylish :)

Cowl

I wanted to tackle Moebius knitting (a circular scarf with a half twist), but didn't have a circular needle long enough to put in the twist. Instead, I just knit a scarf in the round. It works as a hood and a thick scarf. Great for cold days!

Ultralingua Penguin

At my company, we make dictionaries and phrasebooks, but have recently been moving into the field of word games. One game we're working on involves penguins. We've since adopted the penguin as an office mascot, so when we planned a White Elephant gift exchange, I knew the perfect thing to knit. It didn't turn out as great as my last penguin hat, but my coworkers loved it! Here were some comments received when the lucky recipient of the hat sent out a photo to his friends:

-- "Please send my highest praises to Anna!  Her hat is purlicious!  Yarn over the top!  Cast off the hook!"
-- "Hat = better than good.  Try BEST HAT EVER.  Anna is my hero."
-- "I can't believe she knit something big enough to fit your head.  It's lovely."
-- "Oh, fer cyute! You look like you should be playing hockey, eh?"
-- "It's fabulous. Anna is fabulous. I demand that you wear it always. Will she make me a squid hat, I wonder?"

Extra Large Cable

I used my roving yarn and size 35 needles to make a scarf with an extra large cable. I wanted it to be a lot wider, but with only 4 balls of roving, I didn't have enough to make it as cool as these.