I forgot to take pictures!

Would you believe that I forgot to take pictures of Three, count them, Three, Finished Objects that I gave as Christmas Gifts! Where was my head at???

I'm trying to get photos from the basic ideas I used to get started. So this is a partial post, again.......

The first was the wear it three ways poncho, scarf, wrap thing. I did it in huge needles and it ended up really cool. It really did come out stretchy, but had to have the stretchiest bind off I've ever done. I did the thing where you knit a stitch, knit the second, slip the first stitch over, then yarn over, slip the knit stitch on the right needle over, knit a stitch, slip the yarn over over.
Makes perfect sense, right?

The second was supposed to be a mobius that I started by using a figure 8 cast on for 144 x 2 stitches, then I knit 1 purl 1 my way around both edges in a loop. But, I twisted it twice instead of once. And it ended up way too long. The bind off didn't work out too well. And somewhere along the line, I dropped a stitch that was unraveling into a really big hole when it hit the cast on point. So, I was reworking it while people were opening gifts. Then it was a very dramatic point where I finished and announced that you three may choose who gets which of these knit thinggys. It's a good thing they were all relatives, and very kind in not being judgemental.

My favorite was a frothy yarn in rainbow colors with sparkles and fringy fluffs. I got two balls of it from a LYS close to my hotel on a business trip. It was in the "marked down to almost nothing" bin, didn't have any ball band labels or anything. One ball was darker rainbows and the other ball was lighter pastel rainbows. I tried the figure 8 cast on again, with 120 x 2 stitches. This time I got one mobius going properly. I tried using a stockinette stitch, thinking that it would look cool when it "flipped" to being wrong side out. But, I rolled, predictably, into a reverse stockinette rope. It's still too long to be a good mobius, and ended up to thin. But, it wrapped around the wearer twice and layed like a fluffy necklace. It looked great, but just wasn't what I had intended to arrive at.