Three for three

On my vacation I started--and finished--three new projects. The first was a cabled Irish hiking scarf, and I am delighted with how it turned out. The pattern is from Hello Yarn, and I used somewhere between 2.5 and 3 skeins of worsted Wool of the Andes (color: fern) from KnitPicks. The second project, pictured here with the scarf, is my Not-Quite-Noro hat, a beehive-shaped piece made with one skein of Lamb's Pride worsted (color: red baron). I was actually about one yard short of yarn to make the complete pattern, so I had to eliminate the last set of purl-knit rows and closed the hat a bit earlier than called for. The result isn't quite as pointy on top as the original hat, but when it's one someone's head you can't really tell.

The third project was this twelve-inch square done in a ripple pattern. The members of my local knitting group are each making one square, and all the pieces will be sewn together to great an afghan to be donated to charity. I don't know what yarn I used for this--it was some unlabeled acrylic yarn that I received at our June get-together.

I'm already looking through patterns and trying to decide what to make next...but maybe I'll wrap up some of my unfinished projects first.