Old FO's & a small status update on my Clapotis

So it has been a while since I have been able to knit more than a few rows at a time. So between getting no real progress and nothing terrible happening I haven't had much to say about my ever growing clapotis. She's slowly getting bigger and I'm slowly starting to hate the dropped stitches less. So I think all is well. I hope to get a lot of work done on Thursday as it is my day off and it's supposed to rain so I won't want to do anything.

So on to a small group of my recent FO's! These are all the things I have recently finished that I have photos of on my phone. None of which I knit from a pattern.

These were the mitten like things that inspired me to try and jot down a pattern. The one I am trying to write a pattern for uses a different style cable and is a little smaller but is basically the same. The only thing I don't like about these fingerless mittens is that theyre currently just a little big for me and since theyre knit on alpalca I'm sure they will only grow. So they will most likley me my boys. I knit this with wonderfully soft Alpalca and we have a matching hat somewhere at home.

Though not exactly finished in this photo (I hadn't finished the 2nd handle) this is now finished and although a little on the small side I do bring it to the grocery store with me when picking up a few items. This was knit with some free yarn I found on Craigslist. I believe one (dark) was a wool acrylic mix and the other was straight acrylic (lighter color). The bottom of the bag was knit with both strands held together in seed stitch to make it stronger and more likely to hold its shape when empty. After knitting the base I picked up the sticthes all around it and knit in the round. It was a very relaxing knit which mostly happened in my off moments at work.

This bag was knit in the round with a mix of patons anna and manos. It proves to be rather useless when attempting to carry items. So I am going to end up giving it to my baby sister for her birthday. It will be fine for toting toys around the house. Not so much for things like wallets and keys and other random crap that I would want to have with me. I do think its kind of cute though. Maybe I will try and improve the design in the future.

I like how this purse came out with the exception of the stripe in the middle. In hindsight I would have made the pink middle stripe as a knit stitch instead of a purl so it wouldn't look as awkward. It didn't bother me enough to frog it though. I do really like the pattern I made with the purl in the MC; you can sort of see it here it looks like "<". This was also, knit in the roud (oh how I love my circluar needles) at work with a crochet border around the top and a crochet handle. I added a little button and flap so it can stay partially closed. I do want to eventually add a liner to it so it doesn't stretch out too much.