The time is flying by! But, I have managed to squeeze in a little knitting time. I finished up the hat & booties and sent them in the mail. I was still a little concerned that my friend's wife would react badly to getting a package from some strange woman her husband met on the internet, but I'm assured she loved the items. The baby is due in another few weeks, so maybe some day soon I'll have a picture of her modelling the hat and booties.

And that's not all the knitting! I've managed to finish not one, not two, but three (!) hats. The one at the top I made from the pattern on the wrapper of some "Velvet Spun" sent to me by my great secret pal 7, Tammy. I think it took all of an hour to make -- and it's awfully darned cute.

The grey & blue striped one -- well, that took a little longer, but mostly because I kept putting it aside. It's more or less a version of this pattern. One thing I definitely learned -- skull caps are definitely not flattering on me!

And the third hat is from a pattern book from Cabin Fever. The yarn is from the odd ball boxes and is not the nicest I've ever worked with (I suspect it may be precisely this yarn people who hate acrylics are referring to). But, in the end, it turned out okay. I wanted to try intarsia before I begin a planned sweater for my granddaughter. I think I kind of like it! I'm going to try another from the book before tackling the sweater -- though the sweater picture is in many respects much easier than the pattern for the hat.

Final destinations for the caps is not yet known -- but I suspect they may go to charity (I have to meet my quota somehow!).