Three at Once!

Well, normally I would frown upon this, but I'm doing three at once.  Knitting projects, that is.  I don't usually have more than one on the needles at any given time (not counting ones that are permanently hibernating, waiting for frogging), but I am very energized by last weekend's visit to Stitches - so much so that I added a bunch of patterns to my queue on Ravelry, and purchased even more yarn online at WEBS specifically for some of these patterns.  (Impatiently waiting for it to arrive, but selected regular shipping...)

In addition to adding these "future projects", I am knitting a hat for ds, a sweater for ds, and finishing the cell phone belt for me - I had to wait until I purchased my buttons to start the buttonholes.  The sweater is a Twisted Tree pattern  in medium gray, and I'm halfway up to the underarms since I started Wednesday.  The hat is the Salute Hat (you must sign in to Ravelry to view this page) by Kate Oates of tottoppers and it's a kal (or knit-a-long) that is in warm brown with hints of pink, with rather large buttons on the band.

My daughter, having seen the pictures for the hat, wants me to make one for her, "and one for you and dad too, so we'll all be matching.  And then you could make us matching sweaters too..." at which point hubby and I chime in and point out that "matching" hats (she'll allow us different colors) might be fine, but sweaters too was a bit much!

The pattern for Salute will be available for free until September 17, 2010 through the KAL on Ravelry. (Again, as it's on Ravelry, you'd have to join  - it's free!- to see this page.)  Maybe you'll join us!