Some photos, before I start packing for my short vacation.

First - I have two shawls in progress right now.

First up is Cozy, which was my proctoring-knitting



(It looks like there's a mistake in the lower right corner but it isn't, the shawl just kind of got folded on itself and I didn't realize that when I took the picture)

I guess I never talked much about proctoring knitting. To be good proctoring knitting, in my opinion, a project has to not require TOO much concentration - shaping while working in pattern is out, even some complex patterns are out. Luckily Cozy is simple enough that after a few repeats I had the pattern memorized. It also has to be something small enough to easily carry around without it being too awkward - projects towards the end-stage are not so good, nor are things where you're knitting on neckbands or such. I also don't like things that require too much impedimentia - no toys where I'd have to drag along the stuffing and the eyes and all that, no intarsia with bobbins of fifteen colors.

I also tend not to do socks, because socks are a little harder to explain to a non-sock-knitter than a shawl is, and I'm not big into taking five minutes to carry out a whispered conversation with someone who wants to know what I'm making and why while others are still trying to take the exam.

Here's a closeup:



It came out looking a little too green here; the full-length picture above shows a truer color.

I'm about 1/4 done with it (eight balls of yarn, nearly have used up 2).

But I may throw Cozy over for a while, because I have a new love:



Yup, started Landscape. Aren't those little picots cute, along the edge? I was apprehensive about doing them at first but they are really not hard at all.

And here's the last thing:



The amigurumi bear I mentioned the other day. I used the Roxycraft "Emotional animals" pattern (but mine came out larger than the pattern said it would). The only real modification was that I did the face a little differently - I gave the bear "cutesy anime smiling eyes" rather than the closed, sleeping eyes specified by the pattern.

So she can look like she's sleeping or just smiling in a cutesy anime sort of way.

I had a hard time naming her - she's made of Soy Wool Stripes yarn so at first I tried Tofu, and then Miso, and then any other soy product I could think of but she seemed to resist all of those names. Then this morning, I thought of Huguette (pronounced the French way, "OO-zhette") and that seems to work nicely.

(And yes, I'm aware, there's a bit of a pun there: Huge Head - Huguette. Because most amigurumi do have huge heads, and this one is no exception.)