A knitting post

This is an in-progress scarf I'm working on.  It is my first cabling project, and I like it very much.  I love that the yarn is variegated, but doesn't stripe, which I think would have looked very strange for this project.  The pattern is the Irish Hiking Scarf, which I found on Ravelry.  I started this pattern to practice cabling, which a friend had recently taught me.

When I asked him to teach me, he laughed, and said that cabling was ridiculously easy.  And he was right.  Cabling was very easy to learn, and I love the look it gives.

The yarn I'm using for this scarf is a Malabrigo 100% merino wool.  I've discovered a fondness for wool with this project.  It is super soft and warm, and I can't wait until I'm finished with this scarf.

Fingerless Mitts!

These are one of my earliest knitting projects.  I completed them at the end of the summer.  At my internship this summer, I met an awesome friend who helped me improve my knitting, and she helped me with this pattern.  They were a really easy pattern to work with, and I enjoyed it very much.  It was a simple project, but I learned how to work from a pattern, as well as some other important things.

While this project has some imperfections and I am not 100% thrilled with them, I'm still very pleased, because at the time I thought I would be confined to scarves for the rest of my life.  And I was vastly bored with knitting only scarves.  These were a relatively quick knit, especially the second one, since I knew what I was doing by that time. :)