Ignoring time spent elsewhere...

I've finished some projects! Two big ones, a few small ones.

 

The first is Kristina McCurley's Vortex Shawl, in Shalimar Yarns' Aerie yarn, which I bought at SAFF last year. The dark blue is Asilomar, the light is Whale Tales. It's just light enough to stay on my shoulders without a pin, but heavy enough to be a bit warm.

I call it alternately my Finals Shawl (it was started the first day of Spring Finals Week and completed on the last) and my Badass Faerie Cloak, though I lean toward the latter because it requires less explanation.

Secondly, I began and completed what I call my my Shepard Gauntlets, after the savior of the galaxy from BioWare's Mass Effect game series. The mitts are reverse engineered and slightly altered from Ravelry user litfoh's Mass Effect Gloves, which themselves use color charts from BioWearables' Interrupt Gauntlets. I utterly adore these fingerless mitts. I will never under any circumstances knit them again.

While the mitts are beautiful and they fit me like...well, you know, they are also reverse engineered. This means that I had no pattern. Having no starting pattern means that I have two extra Renegade (right) mitts. For the first one, the mitt was too large for my tiny hands. For the second, it fit fine, but when I made the accompanying Paragon (left) mitt, it was after losing one of my DPNs and working it on three instead of four.

Silly me did not realize that this would make the glove much more tightly knit. Silly me is an asshole.

Anyway, the Paragon glove actually fit better when knit on three needles, so that is how I made the third (and hopefully last) Renegade glove. Finally, after two extra months of knitting and almost running out of grey, I had two kickass fingerless mitts to play the new Mass Effect on. I still have to wait until it comes out, but I am ready to go.

These are knit in Cascade's 220 Fingering weight, in White, Red, Charcoal, and Topaz. In alternate news, I thought that topaz was a yellow gemstone but apparently it also comes in bright blue. Who knew?

I also knit one shawl I haven't blocked yet and have started another shawl (I always have one on the needles now) and an Aran sweater for myself. They will be in another post, as I do not have pictures of them yet.