socks, hats, and gifts for babies.

Some long awaited knitting updates.

Firsly, my Sockapalooza socks are finished! Notice how I've managed to get the colouring from the variegated yarn to cunningly match. Purely coincidental, I assure you.

Next up, a FO that you didn't even know I'd started. This is a Chemo cap suitable for a guy to wear. It's done in the cotton yarn that I was originally going to use for the socks. I'll be donating this to the St Louis Knitters' Guild next meeting, as we were all requested to make a chemo cap. Most of the others will be done using eyelash or similar fancy yarn, but I thought that a male cancer patient might appreciate something a little less fluffy.

Third up, a Surprise Baby Jacket, also to be donated to the Guild. The basic pattern is garter stitch all the way, with cunning increases and decreases which result in, well, a mess. But a cunning mess. A quick fold here, and a flick there, and you have a baby jacket which just needs seaming along the shoulders. I thought that the plain garter stitch was just too plain, so I incorporated a mosaic pattern into the design, with suitable adjustments to take care of the incs or decs.

Lastly, my wife has been knitting a baby afghan for a baby due in May; sex of said baby will not be known until birth, so we thought that the mint green mixed with white would look really good. And it does.