
First up, my striped project was the ruffle alligator shawl. (The Ravelry links are all to public pages if you want to click through). Product of a lot of short rows and moving stitch markers, this ended up taking 3.6 skeins of the dark blue and 3.9 of the light blue. I used Cascade 220 Superwash Sport. It's a lovely shawl, densely squishy, and entirely not my taste. I tried it on and the Philosopher agreed with me. So, it's off to the gift bin while it tries to sort out it's destiny. This also was the overambitious project--1006 yards where I needed 175. I really should know better.

Next up, slipped stitches and this light hat. I find that I forget how quickly hats can go, even this one which required me to pay attention to what I was doing. Of course, it also went much faster once I stopped trying to knit it on dpns and found a 16" circular. Far less shoving of stitches and worrying about dropped ones. The yarn is silk and alpaca, both light but oven like. And the hem turned out better than I expected. This one is cute and I think will stay with me. I lose hats far too quickly to only have one or two in the hat bin. I would knit this pattern again.

Finally, the felted wine carrier. At very best I am ambivalent; really though I just don't like it. I disliked knitting on large needles with worsted weight wool, which clinked around noisily and were loose enough that I didn't feel I could take the project out of the house. I don't particularly care for the felted fabric. It's still taller than I'd like but it's at correct width, so I'm hesitant to run it through the washer again. But I can say I've tried it and am happy not to again, so I suppose that's soemething, maybe. Also destined for the gift bin, though I'm not sure I know many people who take wine with them who will also remember to take their felted wine carrier back and forth. Hmmm, perhaps a white elephant party gift...
Oh, final yardage, as these count for Stash Dash:
1) Shawl: 920 meters
2) Hat: 166 meters
3) Wine Carrier: 162 meters
Current Total: 1248 meters; ~25% !!