Mom's birthday

Lately I've been working on simple small things, like coasters and washcloths. Mom mentioned awhile back that she thought it would be cool if I knitted a set of coasters for her. I have a bunch of Red Heart yarn that I never use, but I like the colors, so I made a set of four out of it. It was also her birthday on Sunday, and she wanted some armwarmers. I looked around and found a pattern that I thought was suitable. She wanted a simple pattern, but I didn't want to knit just garter or just stockinette. The pattern is called One-Day Wristwarmers. I did them on size 9 DPNs in Bernat Berella 4.
Close up of the ribbing: The thumb hole, which was so simple and easy and turned out so perfectly:


I also made a couple headbands out of some yarn I bought off of knitpicks. The first one followed the pattern I found in terms of width, but I made the back strap thin, but it was still too much for my fine hair. So this one I cut the stitches on either side of the lace pattern way down, and this is what I came up with:



I'm currently working on gloves with a simple lace pattern. I'll post pics of them when I finish!

First projects!

All right, so I followed the easy pattern in my knitting book and created some coasters. The biggest one (variegated) is my first project, where I practiced not pulling my knitting in so tight. The one with the Slytherin colors would have looked better on the edges had I not had so much yarn to weave in. The book says to weave the yarn into the horizontal stripes, but I feel like it would be more noticeable than on the edges. I think I'll play around with that a little bit.

This one made me sad. It's my third coaster, and the yarn was supposed to be for Patriots' colors (as my boyfriend Dan is a fan of them). However, the white apparently didn't feel like cooperating with the other two colors and segregated itself in the corner, trying to make the piece look like a bad flag. Thought I'd put it up anyway.