Melissa's Hat, Sweater, Zilver, Spinning

Hi,
I have a lot of pictures and projects to share with you today, and I found my nice camera so the pictures are much better than last time. :-)  Anyways, I've been knitting a lot lately and revisited some hibernating (projects I haven't worked on in a while) like my Owl Sweater.

Here's a little sneak peak of my sweater so far!  You can probably see the stitches where I increased and decreased since those stitches tend to look different from others, hopefully when the sweater is all finished they won't stand out as much :)

Also, I recently (as in today) cast on for Zilver, a simple, airy, stockinette shawl that has a bit of texture to make it interesting.  I'm knitting this fun shawl for a KAL at the Needling Away group on Ravelry.  I founded the group during October 2012 and we have been doing knit-a-longs ever since! :)

And I've been slowly working on Miss Melissa's hat, and I'm finally on to the decreases for the crown of the hat.

So far I think it looks very nice, and I can't wait until it's done and then I can attach the beautiful buttons.   I would show you a picture of the buttons, but I think I'm going to keep that a surprise that will be revealed once that hat is finished.

After taking a nice lengthy break from knitting hexipuffs for my beekeeper's quilt I picked up some silk blend yarn and my double pointed needles and knit a puff.

I am really enjoying this yarn.  The colors are very spring-time-ish and cheery, and the yarn makes the stitches very defined and crisp.

I also picked up the spindle and some roving!  It's really fun and easy to spin this roving, and the colors are really vivid.

That's all I have to share for today, have a great rest of your weekend!

Emily