Project Name: Merging Colors Mitered Scarf
Designer: Candace Eisner Strick
Pattern Source: kit
Yarn: 100% Merino
Yarn Source: Earthfaire
Date Started: 9/3/06
Date Completed: 10/1/06

Comments: I may have set some sort of personal record for the shortest time between buying yarn and finishing a project. Usually I let the yarn sit in stash and age, but I was so excited about this scarf that I cast on almost immediately after receiving the yarn. I twisted the cast on row and didn't discover it until I was 13 rows into the project, so I ended up having to rip it out and start over again. I was knitting it obsessively when I first started and again after I ripped out, so I still managed to finish in just under a month. That's not so fast for my speedy friends, but it's pretty good for me. I'm absolutely in love with the finished project and trying very, very hard not to buy another colorway immediately.

Project Name: Cabled Hat with Earflaps
Designer: Zoe Mellor
Pattern Source: Adorable Knits for Tots
Yarn: Knitpicks Merino Style
Yarn Source: Secret Pal 8

Comments: I am knitting some warm things for the Pine Ridge Reservation, so I used the Merino Style I got from my Secret Pal this year to make this super cute cabled hat.

Project Name: Jailbird Hat
Designer: Jil Eaton
Pattern Source: MinnowKnits, Too
Yarn: Knitpicks Merino Style and Gems Opal Merino
Yarn Source: Secret Pal 8 and Beaded Knitting Kit leftovers

Project Name: Pebbles Scarf
Yarn: Prism Pebbles
Yarn Source: Needlework Unlimited
Date Started: 10/22/06
Date Completed: 10/22/06

Comments: This is another knit for the Pine Ridge Reservation - a child's scarf. I bought the yarn during the Treasure Hunt - I wanted to buy something from each store on the hunt to encourage them to do it again next year. I had long admired this unusual yarn when I visited NU, but it's a little pricey and I didn't think I needed another plain scarf for myself. It's 100% nylon worsted weight. The yarn is constructed as a series of little poof balls - it sort of looks like a string of beads:

I decided to knit a very simple knit/purl combination in a basketweave pattern. I like the feel of this yarn in the skein better than I did knitted up. It was fun to see how it turned out, but I'm glad I didn't buy more skeins for a scarf for myself. It was also a little hard to knit since there was no give at all. I think some little girl at Pine Ridge will really like it though.