Knitting projects

A few years ago, I discovered knitting and quickly became obsessed.  I'm not exactly sure how it started, it was probably one of those trendy type things that I wanted to try out.  Of course I got hooked and began working on projects.  Thankfully, there are lots of tutorials online that give me some help and guidance as I'm trying to figure things out.  I'm taking things slowly because I like the mindless repetition of it all.  My goal for 2009 is to do something that requires a bit of skill other than "knit until finished", so hopefully I'll be posting some new pictures soon.  In the meantime, here are a couple of shots of projects that I recently finished.  

Chino is modeling an ugly blanket - it started off as a baby blanket for a friend's son, but after running out of the yarn, that was clearly not going to work out.  Rather than abandoning it all together and having it live in my closet of unfinished craft projects, I continued on with some scraps of yarn that I had laying around and voila, the ugly blanket was born.  You can see that the beginning started out all well and good, but look to the left corner and you can see a random splattering of the wrong blues and greens and a dark orange.  He seems to like it. Don't let the dirty look fool you.

The next project, after the ugly blanket was a V-Shawl for my friend, Sheila.  She's always cold and loves to be cozy, so this yarn was perfect. Lots of fun colors and the shape makes it very universal - she can wear it around the house or as an extra thick, fluffy scarf.  This shawl was primarily crafted during long car rides during the month of December and was symbolically finished up on the ride back to our house after the last stop.  I think this shawl might resurface again - it was pretty fun and easy to make.

Now that I'm looking at these pictures, I'm thinking that I might begin a perpetual ugly blanket/scarf/shawl of some sort.  Rather than having the yarn end up in my craft graveyard in the closet, I think it would be fun to turn it into something, rather than nothing.  It might be an interesting way to use all of the leftover yarn that I've been accumulating.  Then again, it might become that project that never ends...I might have to set some boundaries (yikes, me? boundaries?) for this one.