A couple of other things

I'm almost done with Tappan Zee. That's really, truly, honestly true. I've been working on it today. There are about 16 rows left, and I'm totally psyched, and I can't wait to try it on.

But over the holiday weekend, the thought of having a big pile of wool and silk sitting in my lap was more than I could bear, so I did a couple of other things. One was to finish up this baby hat that I started ages ago...


...with yarn left over from this project. The hat had been sitting around, less than half-finished, on a bookshelf in the sitting room for, I don't know, six months? And on Sunday it just looked like a nice, cool, small project to work on. So I finished it up. It's darling, if I may say so, and now it's headed for the small collection of baby knits I've built up.

And then, Sunday night, I went to The Stash and pulled out the two skeins of Corntastic I bought a couple of years ago. I wound them both into balls and cast on four stitches and started knitting a Baktus.


I love it. I love this yarn, I love this pattern, I love them together. In real life, the color is a bit richer than this (this is the least bad of the seven pictures I took), and I love that, too. The pattern suggests knitting the yarnovers through the back, so as to close up the holes, but I really like the way it looks with the open yarnovers along the edge.