Summer Hiatus is Over

So I'm catching up, and posting a few FOs as well as a frogged Ganomy Hat.

 This was the picture I took of it before frogging it. It's kind of a funny-looking hat, and not in a quirky-cool way, just in that "Oh, is that hand-knit? It looks like your mom made it"-type of way. I ended up knitting Brooklyn Tweed's Turn-a-Square hat with the Misti Alpaca Chunky instead:

I think it's a vast improvement. And since it's gift knitting, I think the intended recipient will be happier with it as well. I loved Turn-a-Square, it's been in my queue for awhile (but with Cascade Eco Wool and and orphan ball of Berocco Geode); I can totally see myself using this pattern to use up scraps, especially now that I live in a place where I can justify wearing a hat in the winter.

This is going to be a holiday gift for my little girl:

 It's yet another cupcake hat (I seem to stick to patterns I like, don't I?) but sized up for a five-year-old and with chunky yarn. This was more of the Misti Alpaca Chunky which I must remember to hand wash. The "sprinkles" were glass bugle beads I'd inherited from an aunt when she moved away.

These are ribbed, toe-up socks with short-row heels by Ann Budd that I also seem to knit often. I didn't really want to knit them this high, but the little girl in question has been going through a trend where she wears dresses and boots, and I wanted the socks to be high enough to be visible over the boots.

So my gift knitting is almost done. . . except for a pair of socks for my brother (which are completely plain, but I'm on the second sock so I'm happy); a pair of socks for Bub; and by special request, a dress for a doll.

The clothes I've knit for Dolly (sometimes my children are very literal in their naming) have been a lot nicer than the things we've bought for her in the store, although that seemed to be the only way to get the doll things like jeans, since I don't sew. So I should be motivated! And Bub has been making comments about how I still haven't finished his doll (which was due more than six months ago now), so I should really finish that. Maybe by the end of the year.