warm goodies

winter hat rough draft, for several reasons...doesn't go with any of my winter coats.  Yep, its warm, love the corrugated ribbing for the extra stability, the pattern I chose is great, the varigated yarn is great.  Second problem, you can't see the pattern that well in the body of the hat because I used a dark skein for the background color...duh.

1 skein of cascade 220 grey heather that I've had kicking around here for about 10 years, and a skein of rustic  wool from the queensland collection .  But its still all stash yarn.

So its version 1.0, the rough draft.  I have colors set aside to do V2.o, hopefully over thanksgiving weekend.  Not stash yarn for the second go, I wanted to make sure that we had better contrast instead of randomness this time.

Something that does go with more of my coats, but will also be an option for inside wear too is my newest scarf.

The first picture shows the color much better (and is a more pleasing shot).  This second one shows the pattern  bit better.  Just a simple 4 row repeat easy lace pattern.  A quick knit on #11 needles.  About 5 hours.

This is Debbie Bliss's Alpaca Silk.  Again it has been kicking around my stash for a while, I think i got this from her club a few years ago as my membership gift.   2.5 skeins of luscious cranberry red.  soft, warm.

Now back to work, have a great weekend!