Desert Turquoise set

A couple of weeks ago, I finished a set in my Desert Turquoise colorway but forgot to post photos here. I enjoy knitting with my own yarn because I am always curious to see how a colorway turns out. This particular set was for the second knitting customer I ever had, way back in 2005 before I had even considered opening a business. Her enthusiasm for my knitting really helped me to make that leap.



The yarn is aran/light bulky Gaia organic merino, one of my favorites.

ghost pumpkin hat

I enjoy coming up with new patterns, though most of the time I am too busy with knitting pants to try out anything new. But when Erika asked me to come up with a hat that looked like a ghost pumpkin, to match a pumpkin set that we were working on, I eked out a little bit of time.





This is knitted from natural aran Blue-Faced Leicester. I dyed a little bit of brown yarn for the stem and the vine embellishment. I really like how it turned out, if I may say so.

dithering

I bought some organic wool yarn in August, planning to knit up a pair of skull & crossbones longies like these for the pirate stocking:



Of course, I've run out of time. So I thought about offering it as a semi-custom slot. Anne suggested doing just a semi-custom hat, since that would take 1.5 nights instead of a week to do. Gotta decide soon. I've got three customs left to do in Sept, and three already lined up for October. So the timing would be really tight, if not impossible. Seems a shame not to do it, though. I could always offer it as a semi-custom in late October or November instead.