Bellwether

So I actually have progress pictures to show! I’ll put them up in order of excitingness.
First up, we have the Mountain Stream Scarf, 8 repeats in. I need to work on this a bit more this week so I can pass Jessica–thus thwarting her evil plan to finish before me and act as [...]

I attempted the two-handed method this evening on ATL and amazingly enough, it was faster (2 rounds in an hour and twenty minutes instead of 2 hours!) and I didn’t drop the needles on the throwing side of things. I totally need to figure out how to tension properly with my right hand, though, [...]

Finally got some pics of P. in his Cunning Hat:

Project Stats
Yarn: Brown Sheep Naturspun Worsted, Navy Blue and Natural. One skein of each, with lots of natural left over.
Needles: US6 16″ Addi Turbo
Pattern: My own. Whenever I design a pattern, I always add fiddly details that are a pain to deal with. [...]

I’ve finished the hem! It sucked! I am now–finally–on the colorwork:

Okay, so it’s only two rows of colorwork. It’s more than I had before, and now I feel like I’ve really started the sweater–all that hem was just a warm-up, to use an awkward sports metaphor. Hopefully I’ll be able to [...]

I’m two rows from the beginning of the colorwork on Above the Tree Line (hereafter ATL). I’ve noticed a few things so far:

It takes a really, really, really long time to knit 416 stitches. That’s how many I have in a round. You folks who are knitting smaller sweaters are so lucky! [...]