FoF: Getting Back To It, part 2

So I decided to pick up a small project after finishing that earlier frogging.  It's a hat.  One that, according to my project notes, I actually finished once -- but it was too small so I frogged it back to where the decreases began with the intention of knitting more rows straight. ... The notes, however, didn't specify how much more I thought I'd need to do. And looking at where I had placed a lifeline, I'm guessing that I've knit about an extra inch (maybe a little less) in pattern before the decrases.  Not sure how much longer I need to go at that.  I wish I'd done enough hats to have gotten a sense for how much I'd need to do to get the right size for me, but alas no...

Anyway, this is my "Dreaming of Berets" (pattern: Reverie by Amy Swenson):

It'll look better once it's finished and blocked, of course.

And as the baby has just woken from her nap, I'll have to put this project down and resume another time.

FoF: Getting Back To It

So, um... nothing has happened since that last entry so far as Finish-or-Frog is concerned.  Nothing until today, that is.

I saw my husband frogging his socks -- he wants to restart them and do them differently.  He hasn't knit in years.  ... so I decided I should do at least one thing on my Finish-or-Frog list while my daughter is napping.

So I grabbed the Forever Shawl and ripped!  Felt good to finally find an end to that eternity of wasted yarn.

Here's the photo I took in Feb 2012 before letting it hibernate:

... and it looked pretty much exactly the same when I pulled it out today.

But now, it's just a nice, compact ball of yarn.  Yay!  Only took a couple minutes to do as well as I hadn't gotten very far into the shawl before deciding I despised working the pattern.

Now I have a gorgeous skein of 100% Merino laceweight yarn that's slightly more purple/pink than the red in that photo above.  My cameras have never been good at capturing the color of things for me.

And I can't decide whether to hunt down a pattern in my queue that would be good with this yarn, or move on to another FoF project...

FoF: Starting Early

Sometimes it's best to get started on things when the inspiration hits rather than when you pre-schedule it.  I was feeling like I needed to accomplish something, so I went into my WIP closet and looked for something small that I could rip out or finish quickly.

Lo and behold, I stumbled on the learning piece I started for an entrelac class at Stitches West in 2012.  The pattern was supposed to result in a scarf, but I was never going to finish it because it required cutting the yarn (and therefore weaving in ends) far more frequently than I'm ever comfortable with.  Unfortunately, this also meant that the portion of the yarn already used was going to be useless if frogged.

So I slipped the live stitches back to the other needle, and retroactively bound off the stitches I could, leaving only 2 live stitches mid-row.  I then wove in the ends (all gazillion of them) and with an extended piece of scrap yarn, I wove in the 2 remaining live stitches.

And voila... a "finished object" that's about 8" x 5".  I have no idea what to do with it, other than give it to my toddler to see if she's interested in playing with it.

So that's one down ... 19 to go.

Now to put the remaining yarn back with its mates in the bins in the closet...