Knitting, mostly

Lots of knitting, as I said before. There seems to be a few themes to my knitting too, see if you can guess what they are.

Finished objects first I think. First FO of 2011 was.....
A slouchy Sixburgh hat. That's right, the colorway of the yarn (which is from Destination Yarns) is "Sixburgh" - for those of you who aren't die-hard fans it's a combination of Pittsburgh and the six Superbowls that the Steelers have won. It's wonderful and comfy - just ask Mom, she wore it all day on Saturday. I knit this up while waiting for yarn to arrive to make this hat:
It's a reverse engineered version of a hat that was first seen during October - Breast Cancer Awareness month - and the gold was replaced with that hot pink the NFL used this year. However, I like the gold better. I could have bought one of these hats, but why when I can knit one?

Photos were taken on Saturday, and I finally got a shot of me wearing my Steelers Pink sweater.
Because the Christmas jersey still has not been found, that was my outfit for gameday. Are you seeing the theme yet? Let me help, here are two little guys I finished during the game (except for the teeth, I did that later):
Meet Heath and Hines. Leftover Sixburgh yarn got used for Heath, and then I had a stroke of brilliance when I decided to make Hines' hat look like the fade hats I made last year. There is a third little hooligan in the works, Troy will be his name, but the game wasn't going the way I wanted, so I stopped, and guess what, the Steelers won. So yeah, maybe a little superstitious, maybe. Just a little. But the little guy should be done by the game this week, that's my plan anyway. They're just so cute and fun!

One more FO, this one is to replace poor King Arthur.
Pattern is Daphne and Delilah. Have you guessed the second theme? yeah, i might be a bit hung up on these patterns for little monsters - they're so cute and quick, and I can't help it, they make me smile. Good thing I've got plenty of kiddos to make stuff for.

Onto the works in progress. I showed the Delancey cardigan before, here's the progress:
It's going really quickly, considering that I don't work on it that much. And I'm still head over heels for it. That's the right front done, now I'm working on the center back, and should be able to get the body of the sweater done this month. Woot!

Last Sunday i did finally go see the new Harry Potter movie (Mom and Dad went too), which renewed my enthusiasm for the Hermione sweater:
It's finally starting too look like it's the one from the movie! There have been some questions/discussions on the increases and how to do them and where and the numbers, so it's on hold for a little while to make sure that it's right and I don't have to rip it out. That would make me sad.

And then there's a shawl, a pretty little thing (even though it mostly looks like a wonky jellyfish at the moment) that I haven't blogged and now it's basically done.
The Whippoorwill, which I've wanted to do for a while. Really pretty, and super simple. Had some issues with the yarn overs - the pattern was written to do them a very specific way to make them even on both sides, and let's just say that it didn't work out for me. So it's my way. But there it is, all done except for binding off. Then it's on to sewing in the ends and blocking.

That's the last theme of my knitting this month - crazy number of ends to weave in. Seriously, I might have to take a few hours before the end of the month just to weave in the ends on the 2 sweaters, just to make working on them a little easier, sometimes the ends annoy me and get in the way.