In which we have some FOs

So I'm having a rather relaxing weekend (doing math problem sets), and I thought I'd post a few pictures of my knitterly labours from these past few weeks.

First up:
a hat! With earflaps!

I used this pattern, and I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it. Bonus is that there's plenty of yarn leftover...I'm thinking matching mittens may be in order. The news here is that we may finally have snow tonight, so I'd like to be prepared.

I'm also warming up my toes.

The one on the left is actually the only new one. The other sock was made my sophomore year of high school, and somehow found its way to my dorm room, and since the partner to the blue stripey sock is still on the way, I figured some mismatching was in order.

The self-striping yarn actually had an earlier life as a shawl, but the elastic didn't like being a shawl, so I frogged it halfway through and let it be socks. It's much happier now.

Now, back to three-dimensional space!

3-D Art

So I'm taking this 3-D Foundations art class, partly because it's a prereq for ceramics classes, partly because it fulfills a GER, and partly because it's as far from mathy as I can get, so it balances out my beginners programming class and my two other math classes.

We're going to have various projects in different mediums, playing with form, dimension, line, volume and so on.

Naturally, I'm trying to turn everything into a knitting project.

The first week of school, we had a one-day project where we had a single sheet of computer paper and we had to make a non-representational sculpture with it.

After folding a fortune teller (remember those?), I fiddled around with cutting and made a little tunnel. But I still had that extra strip of paper that always needs to be cut off when you make fortune tellers. What to do?

I cut the paper into tiny strips and knitted it.

Unfortunately, I hadn't had this planned beforehand, so I had to make do with pencils, but it turned out pretty well. You're going to have to take my word for it, however, as I don't have pictures.

What I do have pictures of is a WIP made entirely out of wire.

Can you tell what it is?

How about a hint:

That, my friends, will soon be a wire replica of the flyer for my spinning wheel.

Needless to say, I'm quite enjoying myself.