Sweater Boycott
I got totally sick of doing the sweater this weekend (I'm halfway through the last sleeve, and it's cruising along, and I never want to look at size 4 needles, Debbie Bliss cotton cashmere, or 5x3 ribbing again), so I decided to make my first hat out of my extra skein of Manos del Uruguay. I originally wanted to use the stitch pattern from my scarf so they would match, but that stitch pattern doesn't work in the round. So instead I just used a generic stockinette hat pattern.
SADLY I bought the holiday issue of Creative Knitting today, and what is there a pattern for but a hat worked in the round with the same stitch pattern as my scarf. I could rip it out but it's my first hat so I'd kind of like to keep it, if for no other reason than to remind myself that I should shape things to fit my head and not blindly follow a generic hat pattern that will end up giving me a square hat. Then I had a tiny amount of Manos left over, and Manos in Wildflowers is a terrible thing to waste, so I decided to knit a sweater for my monkey.
I used a bit of a ball of kid mohair I got for the Santa beards on the stockings I haven't made yet for the heart. He has a heart on his tummy normally, and I thought he would like to keep his heart even though he was wearing a sweater. Plus, I'd never done intarsia, so, practice time. I'm pleased with the results, though his arms were fatter than I guessed when I was knitting the sleeves in the car.