TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

I have wanted to put up pictures all freakin' week, but couldn't since I haven't seen my camera since St. Patrick's Day. Yeah, I have friends who borrow extremely expensive, precious things and don't return them for long periods of time. Needless to say, this will be last time for a while that I lend anything to any one. Anyway, I borrowed my sister's camera today, and took a couple of pictures:  The first is Mariah. I am working on the hood, which seems to be the most confusing part. Every few rows she says [WS] patt as set (or something along those lines) and it's really never clearly said what the pattern as set is! So I am hoping I do everything correctly and I won't end up with some big mess in the end that I will have to frog back. The directions for the short row section were really unclear as well. I am kind of glad I can see how things are supposed to be in the end and work them out that way. If I didn't think in a mechanical way like that, I would probably have been really confused!

 

The second is the Fiery Bolero from an IK issue a year or two old. (In the smaller picture it looks like there is some wavy pattern or something on it, but it is really just plain stockinette.) I really like it, but don't have #3 circs to do the ribbing around the edges, so I think I'm going to frog it. It's been in this state for 6+ months, maybe a year and I just can't take it anymore. It's done with Cotton Ease, which I love. I think I am going to frog it and make a boobholder, maybe a modified boobholder top, like the ones I have seen on craftser and such. I like the idea of puffy sleeves on a shirt but not on a shrug, and I am debating whether I should make the shrug minus the puffs or the top with them. I need to finish Mariah and the Letter Have It Bag before I do much more pertaining to this. I am trying to keep WsIP to a minimum!