Making progress on the first of the Coworker Christmas Gifts! These are the Ratjetoe arm warmers, which are going to help use up scrap yarn. I'm not using quite the same colors as the original pattern, just what I have that looks good together.
I really like the pattern so far (I did use 2.75 mm needles instead of 3 mm like the pattern called for, based on my experience with the yarn when I used it for the sweater. I think it was a good choice here. I don't think these would fit my chubby arms comfortably but they'll fit my coworker. She's skin and bones. If I ever make them for myself I'd use the 3 mm needles) and it's giving me a tiny bit of practice with stranded knitting without being an entire sweater's worth.
I've also been trying to find projects to use up some of my more expensive yarn that's not just socks. At least 3 of the yarns will have to be socks since that's all I have enough for and finding more of that yarn would impossible, or next to. Or I could make a hat. I don't wear a lot of hats, but it might be nice to have one I made myself.
A couple of my yarns are lace weight, too, and I really don't know what I'm going to do with those since there's not much yarn. Except for one, which I'd grabbed two hanks of for some mysterious reason (I think I was thinking it would be enough for a sweater. It is not, not at my size. I should have checked before ordering). But there's actually enough of this one yarn, held together, to make a sweater vest.
Since I've been wanting to start adding sweater vests to my wardrobe, this is perfect! I fully expect this one to take me a while, given that the yarn will come out to barely fingering weight held together, but at least I won't have to do sleeves.
Patterns have also been chosen for most of my coworkers for their gifts. I've got plenty of projects in the queue now at least so I shouldn't be bored for a while.
