I'll open this brag book with one of my favorite completed projects of all time: my Amelia Earhart Aviator Cap. When I first saw this I just had to have it. If you love it as much as I do and want to tackle lots of wraps and turns, the free pattern is right here! (You can also click on the pattern to see more of the design on the sides of the cap. It's very pretty.)
No brag book of knitted projects would be complete without including two things: the craft table and some unfinished (and never to be finished) projects! After months of wanting a spot in the house to dedicate as mine and have a table to work at, a place to store my notions, be able to leave books open and jot down notes, etc, I finally got exactly what I wanted, thanks to a flexible husband and some money my mom gave me for Christmas. And what you see here is not messy, you see, it's inspiration! Creativity in action! Words cannot describe how much I love having my sewing machine always at hand, plugged in and ready to go... I think I've already altered or embellished every single pair of Annabelle's pants. (Maybe that should be the subject of my next brag book.)
As every knitter knows, you sometimes start projects that you don't finish. I don't want to pretend that I don't do that, so here are a couple of scarves I started last year for Dave's sister, only to quit after ten or twelve inches because I realized the colors were so wrong. They are still hanging out in my knitting basket and I haven't figured out what to do with them yet. The white one I could easily unravel and make something else with. The pink one, well, maybe I should just finish it and give it away? I can't decide. 
This is the scarf that I ended up making for Dave's sis. The yarn is my favorite: super soft and 100% wool with absolutely no itch and no lint (also seen above in my aviator cap and below in the scarf I made for Annabelle.) She had recently moved to a town called Seaside, the exact name of this pattern!
Not yet blocked, but cute just the same, this is a little sweater for a doll I haven't yet crafted. You eagle eyed knitters out there probably noticed right away that I picked up the stitches to attach the sleeves on the wrong side, creating a little "vest" effect. Oh well. And I'm not too keen on the collar. Besides once I do actually make the doll I will probably want a different colored sweater anyway! But, if you are interested, the doll pattern can be purchased here and the sweater pattern is available for free here.
This blue scarf is knitted with the softest hand-dyed variegated cotton yarn I have ever touched. The pattern is from Last Minute Knitted Gifts and was easy to make. But the edges roll. Even after I blocked it and added a crocheted edging it still rolls. So aggravating! And it bugs me when I wear it. So, someday I'll probably rip it all out and use the yarn to make myself a simpler blue scarf just to show off the yarn. Because, honestly, I can't get enough of the soft blueness!
This was my first cable project, a scarf for Annabelle to wear on our trip to San Francisco over Christmas. It fits her perfectly and she doesn't mind wearing it when it's cool enough. Sweet, isn't it?
My current project: practicing some complex cable patterns for the back of another doll sweater. This sweater really has me missing a project that I can just sit back, watch a movie and knit mindlessly... or take to the playground and knit while I follow Annabelle around. I have to track every line on the chart (see the post-it marking my spot?) and the mistakes seem impossible to spot early on. This pattern is obviously a little too advanced for me and only reassures me that the next one will be easier and more fun to work on!
My beloved warshrags. I've only got two so far, but look forward to the days when I have ten or twenty! These lovely rags are so awesome for cleaning up just about every mess Annabelle makes. They have survived multiple trips to through the washing machine and the wear they show only makes them that much more lovely. The pattern is in the Mason Dixon Knitting book.I love that to make these warshrags I'm knitting with the yarn my mom bought me two years ago when I was in the hospital during my pregnancy. She got me all this Peaches and Cream cotton dishcloth yarn, a few crochet hooks and a little how-to-crochet pamphlet and ordered me to bed (complying with the bed rest order from the doctor!) and I sat there for hours and taught myself to crochet a great many things. I always think about that when I think about these rags.
My house slippers. A pattern I made up as I knitted, not very well thought through, but as comfortable and warm as I wanted, so I let the rest slide.
