It's Still Spooky Season To Me!

  Back on November 4th, it was the last day for Fear Deluxe Admission so Ryan, Bill, and I decided to go to Cox Farms.  We wanted Shane to come with us, but he was busy.  To help stagger people in the attractions we got a card telling us what time slots we had for each event.  We started with The Forest, then to the Cornightmare, and finished with the Darkside Hayride.  I did like the hayride the best because there were a lot more haunt actors appearing from almost nowhere.  The party barn was my favorite part, along with the falling fence bit.  I'm glad we all went together.

Pattern: Swirling Drop Hat - Yarn: unknown blue cotton dk - Needle: US 6

  I thought I had finished this a while ago, but had left it halfway through the last row.  I thought by using a smaller hook and slightly thinner yarn that I could make the hat small enough to fit on Bill's head, but it's still a bit loose.  I know it will fit someone, but I don't know if it's too big to be a size made by many people.  My new thought on it is to use a bigger yarn again and make one size smaller, so maybe it will be the dimensions that I was hoping for.

Pattern: Feather and Fan Shawl - Yarn: Sundance Classic Elite Yarn in 6220 (Celery Spring) and 6250 (Straw Hat) - Needle: US 6

  I only had one skein of the green and used most of six skeins of yellow for the body.  I wanted to try making the pattern with random amounts of yarn instead of working up to a certain row like I did when I designed it.  I already made a change to the pattern, but I still need people to test it since I've been the only one to knit it so far.

  At one point Ryan showed an interest in trying to learn how to do some knitted colorwork.  I did a quick search for spooky colorwork patterns and found this Bat Hat.  I then remembered it later and wanted to make it as well, but for some reason couldn't find it again.  It took me a few hours over a few days, but I was finally able to find it.  I know it's supposed to be a spooky themed design, but I like the idea of it being in cute pastel colors.  It's been a while since I've done any colorwork, so my tension is wonky and I'm pretty slow at it.  I am having a lot of fun though, so it should be done soon.  While searching for the pattern I did find a bunch of other Spooky Knit Colorwork patterns.