some hats...

so i've had some productive knitting time recently, at least in terms of hats...and i finally have a digital cam so i can post some pictures of my stuff...i definitely have somethings that i'm not going to finish in time for holiday presents...so they'll just have to be a little late! shrug

all these pictures have to be split up over several posts, but let's start with the finished items...

first is a hat that i made for my friend elena a while ago and just finally gave to her...the lighting is a little weird in these pictures (my old room was pretty dark...not that my new place is much better...)...
so the colors actually start with red at the bottom and go to an orange and then a yellow....i doubled up the yarn so that there was two strands of red and then a strand of red and orange then two strands of orange then a strand or orange and yellow and then two strands of yellow.

here's a close up of the stitch i used...it made vertical zigzags on the hat...they get a little lost in the colors, but when it's on her head, it stretches out nicely...

this one i haven't given to anyone yet...the colors are a little weird, but it makes for something bright and fun...

since it's hard to see in the larger picture, here's a close up for the detail of the stitch...clearly i like playing with my stitch encyclopedia! it's a diagonal stitch...