Doesn’t it make sense that I should make a hat from a pattern named for a girl who got lured into a candy house out of a yarn called ‘rich chocolate’?

This is the fitted version of Gretel, made for Tabatha as a belated Christmas present. I used less than 1 skein of Malabrigo Merino Worsted, in colorway Rich Chocolate. This pattern was so fun to knit, and I love how the cables come together in the crown decreases. The only problem that I had was that the cast-on (I did a stockinette-stitch tubular cast on) turned out too tight, and didn’t stretch much when I tried to loosen it during blocking. I hope she can still wear it comfortably, though!

I finally got around to putting buttons on my Wisp.

I went through the rest of the little pearly buttons that I used on my cardigan to find 5 of the thinnest, lightest ones and put them on one end at as regular intervals as I could, using embroidery floss and the attachment method suggested in the pattern. I think I might re-block this soon, because it’s gotten stretched lengthwise a little too much, making it a lot less wide than it’s supposed to be.

Here’s the beginning of a My So-Called Scarf, with the extra skein of Malabrigo Worsted (Lettuce colorway) that I got awhile ago (I found out that I only need 6 skeins for my size of Tilted Duster, which means I had a whole other skein to do whatever I wanted with):

The horizontal herringbone stitch pattern may be a little tedious and hard to get used to, but it’s showing off the yarn beautifully. I added slipped stitch at each side as a selvage, because the edges don’t look very pretty on their own. It’s about a foot and a half long as of today, and I can already see that this was the perfect thing to use the yarn for.

Here’s a photo of today’s paper, just because I felt like it and I like taking pictures with my camera: