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I just saw a post on learning to knit and I know how Lambert likes the knitting posts, so I thought that I'd post about some projects I've been doing. I've been insanely busy with classes so I haven't really been knitting, but I just did some super quick and easy knitting projects and I thought I'd share them (these have all been done in the past weeks and they each took an evening or less).

As part of my ongoing efforts to stick my fingers in my ears and sing "la la la la la" very loudly and pretend Roosevelt is President...

I started making this hat in 2002. The pattern is from a booklet (price 10 cents!) published in 1936. I decided to use some very nice antique wool fingering yarn that I've had sitting around for some time. The yarn is medium grey with a blue tone and a kind of tweediness I like very much. Here's how far I got:

The knitting Olympics are upon us so hopefully I will have more soon. (I know you're always saying we need more knitting posts. I do have a really nice tube top I'm almost done with that I promise to post. It's GORGEOUS.)

I posted previously about my WIP (work in progress-you will all learn knitting terms when I'm done muahahahahaha!) and I'm here to (finally) post some pics of my FO (finished object). And since it took so long, an extra special piece too. And I'm also posting information about how to keep your favourite knitted items in their original shape (natural fibres tend to stretch, shrink, etc.)

Here it is:

Awhile ago Lambert welcomed knitters from Ravelry, more specifically coming from the Just Hillary group. (Though he didn't know that.) He said he wished we posted about knitting. So I am posting about knitting and our lovely group, but there are lots of pretty pictures.

Here's my (almost finished) latest project:

This is the back piece.