Fall Colors are Beautiful!

Fall colors are beautiful this year, at least here in my little town. We've had bright reds, oranges, and yellows as pretty as any we've seen. Most of the leaves are on the ground now, though, and with the rain that is supposed to move in today, the rest will surely fall. Winter is just around the corner.

So the socks and hat that I've been knitting seem to be just the right things. Since my last post, I've finished a pair of socks as part of a KAL for the month of October. The pattern was written by Kirsten, whose blog can be found at http://www.throughtheloops.typepad.com/. The pattern had several versions, but I chose the simplest. Details are on my last post as well as on my Ravelry page. Here is a picture of my finished pair.
The Jitterbug yarn that I used felt really nice to knit, and I wish I could have gotten better color in my picture. The brown is a cocoa brown with nice blues and reds sprinkled throughout. The raised pattern makes the tops and the cuffs of the socks thick, so they are very warm.

I still have not finished my second Monkey sock, but hopefully I'll get it done before the weather really turns cold.

Hats have been the other thing I've done lately. I've finished two, and I like them both.
This one is called the "One Day Beret" and a pattern also by Kirsten from Through The Loops. It is knit in the round from the center out and can be done on any yarn with any size needles. I used Cotton Fleece for this one. (Looks kind of like a Santa hat in this picture!) It did take me a little more than one day, however, but just a little. It was a fun knit and made me start thinking about hats. There are a lot of really cute patterns out there now for berets and other types of hats, as well.

The second hat I knit was from a pattern I purchased from Ysolda S. Teague, whose web site can be found at http://ysolda.com/store/. The name of pattern is "Gretel". It is a beret that is knit from the brim in, starting with a tubular cast on, which I learned for this project, and continuing with cables that go from the edge of the ribbing all the way to the center. Very fun and so cute! Here's the finished hat. Oh, yeah, did I say I used STASH yarn for both of these hats?! YEAH!

In between these hats I did manage to knit a baby kimona jacket, which I forgot to photograph. It was a shower gift for a co-worker. It turned out cute, so if I can get it back long enough, I'll put a picture on my Ravelry.

Until next time...

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