
Two books: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Without Tears and Vogue Knitting Quick Knits. Knitting Without Tears was on my wishlist, Quick Knits was not, but I love them both!

A great pink basket (with stars! I'm going to paint them a shinier silver) for my future bike.

A keychain measuring tape (how freaking neat!) and, best of all,


an uber cute pink striped bag! OH EM GEE I love it! I cart this thing around with me everywhere now (which says alot because I am NOT a purse person).
In Jayne Cobb hat news: the pattern I used was a bit...shall we say...off.
The gauge was 3 stitches to an inch. I got gauge. (Stitches colored so they can be better seen).

The pattern then said to knit 3 rows in ribbing, and then stockinette stitch for 3.5 inches. Did that.

Then I was to change color and knit for another 3.5 inches before decreasing. Check.

Decreasing and adding the flaps went fine, but I didn't add the pompom because the hat I ended up with was large enough for a gorilla.

So I cast on fewer stitches, only knit about 2.75 inches in the orange,

Knit about 3.25 in the yellow before decreasing (after watching the episode again, I decided there should be about an inch more yellow than orange)

Changed my decreases, and added the flaps and pompom for a smaller hat.

The difference between the two is INCREDIBLE.

The smaller one is still a bit too long, but it is quite possible I have a smallish head. I will make the next one even shorter. I'm thinking 2 inches in orange and 2.5 or 2.75 in yellow before decreasing.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I will be out of town from Monday until Wednesday for the holiday.