Just finished my latest hat, been working on it while listening to The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett on Audible. It went really fast and I decided to include all my tools in the photo.
From the left-
A small hooked needle for finishing and weaving in the ends
Scissors for trimming the yarn
Place markers in various styles. I usually use the snowflake as my first stitch marker so I know when I get all the way around.
My needles, size 8- a 16 inch round and 4 double pointed for when bringing the top together.
Last week @neumannsalva showed off her unfinished pieces and asked about mine. Here is one:
It is a geocaching themed cross stitch being made for some friends who moved out of the area and we don't see very often anymore. I put it down so I can work on a wedding cross stitch and never picked it back up. After looking at the pattern and pulling it out to take this picture, it only looks like it would be a few more days of work so I might go ahead and finish it this year. :)
At some point I'll pull out the baby blanket cross stitch I was working on in high school that I never finished, but it's at the bottom of a bunch of storage stuff and cannot be accessed right now. So instead I'll show you one of my first cross stitch designs ever. It was for a scissor case that I did in 1993. This design has actually moved on to being used in our geocaching life, as I repurposed it for a signature item that we use and leave in geocaches to show that we have been there and found them.
And a few of our path tag signature items, we have a hundred made at a time and change the color of the outer area every time we have more made. These are traded to geocachers we meet and people collect them.
And to show off my first knitting project, a purse with an I-cord shoulder strap:
This week I'm heading to Green Bay, Wisconsin for a few days of work and then from there driving to Wausau, Wisconsin where I will work for a few more days before I fly home on Friday. Let's hope the weather isn't too terrible, it looks like they had a bit of snow over the last few days, which will make geocaching a little bit harder. I'm taking the second Mitten as my knitting project and hoping to get it started on my flight.