So I think I'm going to combine posts for a bit, just to move things along. I'll talk about my most recent project and then talk about the very first things I knit. Not necessarily in that order but something like that.

Also I talked about the hat first and that actually wasn't the first project. Our very first thing was to start on a scarf, in a simple garter stich. Lots of simple knitting to start getting the feel of it into your finger tips. I ended up with a funny nubby pink yarn with bits of black in it, which is a bit unusual but I liked it enough to eventually try it in hat form (from Hip Knit Hats by Cathy Caron, I'll get the yarn info posted once I dig it up).

Since I am still learning gauge even now so the hat is a little too big so it doesn't have a lot of shape but at least it doesn't mash my hair flat.

This weekend was a great knitting weekend, we drove down to Durango, CO to ride the Durango-Silverton Train on Saturday http://www.durangotrain.com/, so a 7 hour drive each way with lots of knitting, plus knitting in the hotel room in the evening. On Sunday we got up early again and walked into town (about 4 blocks) and Mikey went back to the depot to take another 1000 pictures of the trains (hopefully some will get posted here http://www.macmann.org  and I went back to the beautiful French Bakery Cafe of Jean-Pierre http://www.jeanpierrebakery.com/Cakes.html and had an Apricot Croisant and coffee, and knit for another hour or so before we hooked up with Mikey's folks for brunch - just the best vacation ever!