FO List for 2009

Since it is now 2010, I thought I would post what I completed in 2009. So, without further ado, here it is:
knitting
- two check and bobble red hats
- 1 carousel hat
- 4 Brownish pink and tan hat
- 1 pale green tam
- basic tam with circular crown
- Baroness Beret
- Basic tam of bare and Cascade 220
- 8 rolled brim hats out of TLC Amore
- chemo cap ladies beret
- 1 rolled brim hat
- 3 baby hats
- Aran Watch Cap
- Gansey Watch Cat
- Ladies beret
- one arrow lace mobius out of Alaskan yarn
- one seed stitch scarf out of Alaskan yarn
- Tiger Eye Lace scarf
- Chevron scarf
- Mobius and funky scarf
- pale green library shawl
- Prayer Shawl
- Generic blue socks
- Hearts and Hugs socks Knit Picks Imagination
- Friday Harbor Socks
- Socks blue fixation
- socks for DH
- socks for me
- Dads grey socks
- market bag
- Blue Brown Sheep V-neck sweater
- 2 homespun premie blankets
- 1 TLC Amore premie blanket
- 5 Tit bits
- 1 medium Christmas stocking
- 3 dish cloths
- Fenna Shawl
- Christmas stocking
spinning
- purple 3ply merino – 130 yds
- pink 3 ply merino - 174 yds
Beading
- Frog bookmark
- Cat stitch marker
- Teapot stitch marker
- Necklace and earring (blue)
- Two Bill’s bracelets
- 2 beaded bracelets (blue milleflore, flower, ladybug)
- 100 stitch markers

If you are still reading, I think you will agree sewing was definitely neglected. Spinning didn't fair very well either. It is a year and we will see what happens.

Peaks and Valleys

This is not a post about 2009. It is a shallow post about a scarf using the Peaks and Valley Scarf pattern from the 2006 Knitting Calendar and one skein of yarn.

The yarn is Stacy Charles Ritratto which doesn't have much stretch, hence the size 8 needles. It is pretty yarn and somewhere hiding in the stash is another skein in a different color. I know the other skein exists because it is on my stash list. It hasn't been seen recently.

Back to this scarf, it knit up quickly with one less repeat across than the pattern calls for. I was trying to stretch the yarn a bit since there was only one skein. It came out to 5 inches by 64 inches which is a respectable scarf size. Not long enough to be in style this year but long enough.

The last two photos show the different sides of the scarf. I think it looks nice on both sides. Even though they aren't identical, I doubt if too many people will notice from a distance.