I finished my tam last night. I used the Handy Book of Knitting Patterns guidelines, choosing a spiral pattern for the top decreases. Maybe I should call this my Twirly Tam. Here it is blocking. Our Tupperware cake container lid is the perfect sized blocker.

I have an itch to make a few other interesting hat designs. Maybe I should add a Quirky Hat Projects list to the sidebar.

I ordered from the Bendigo Woollen Mills website for the first time a few days ago, and the spoils arrived today.

First there were two cones of 3 play Classic in ‘raffia’ and ‘mulga’. They’re both to be used as weft yarn. The raffia will go with the arty green yarn that came in the adopted stash, to make a blanket:

The mulga will go with the cream handspun I made during the weaving course last year, the chocolate I did at home and the light brown that came with the wheel. I’ve got a three toned wrappy jackety garment in mind, made of squares and rectangles.

Lastly, a ball of Harmony in ‘ocean’ to test knit some socks out of. The pattern is Flame Wave Socks from Favourite Socks, and these will be my ‘non-wool’ socks (which is stretching the definition a bit, because Harmony does have some wool in it, but I’ve wanted to see if this would make good sock yarn for a while now).

I realised a few days ago that the number and range of items I’ve knit so far this year almost matches what I knit during 2006. I’ve knit more hats and gloves so far. But I haven’t knit a shawl this year (and probably won’t). Knit From Your Stash must be part of the reason, I suspect. Making progress in reducing the stash was a good motivator. Or maybe it had an anti-dithering effect, forcing me to make up my mind what I wanted to make out of the yarn I had.