Wool Leaves, Version 1, Finished!

Wool Leaves (Jared Flood) knit for New Baby Rahman

Saturday, at my monthly Ample Knitter's group, I finished the blanket.   Much to my surprise, I did use only three skeins with just a bit left over.   Just as I should have.....didn't need the additional yarn.   Having the additional yarn made me calmer about finishing the blanket as I did not have a nail biting...will I or won't run out knit to the finish.  The excellent company got me to the end...and now the blanket is laundered and ready to pass off to the recipient.

After the knitting group, several of us went over to Linden Hills Yarn's new location.    Having not been to the old location, I do not have a basis for comparison.  I quite enjoyed this visit.   Too much.  Yarn followed me home.    It is a very nice place to see and has some lovely, lovely things.  Don't cross the threshold if you are feeling weak.

Yesterday, I hunted for a bit to find yarn and a pattern for a hat I want to make for a birthday gift for a friend.   I had gotten the two skeins of Gloss DK in Fedora from Knitpicks last winter, with a pattern I wanted to try, and put it away.    It only took a half an hour to find it...and I found other things I was looking for on the way.   I felt productive.   

I swatched.   The pattern is a complicated cable pattern.    We were watching American Horror Story:  Asylum.  That was perhaps not my best plan.   Tracking the cables and the carnage at the same time was a bit of a challenge.    The swatch was done.   I am taking it down two needle sized and casting on as this needs to be given away in a couple of weeks.   Pictures will follow as the hat grows on the needle.