Knitting and other projects

OK. Let's go back a bit, because I've done a horrible job of documenting my projects.

Back in October when Karen was here, we visited a yarn shop and I was smitten with all the colors and textures of yarn. So a bought a ball of novelty yarn, which promised to be very forgiving of my beginners mistakes, and created this skinny accessory scarf:

Then, I made a few dishcloths for my mom. I gave them to her for Christmas. For my true love, I gave him a couple skeins of baby alpaca (couldn't figure out how to knit him something without him knowing) and knit him this scarf:

Then, I started to think that all this knitting crap I was acquiring needed a kitty-proof container. Karen has a excellent knitting bag -- big as the great outdoors with lots of pockets and a springy straight-hex closure on top. After trolling JoAnn for cool remnants and searching the Internet for the closure hardware, I created this:

Yes, It's big and as of yet, it has no handles. I'll get to handles; I just haven't desided exactly what I want yet. I'm most proud of the design I made for the cord that attaches the tassles. It's a little hard to see, since it's red on red, but the cord is coiled into a cat design:

Then, I remembered this fabulous mohair sweater that I never wear because - let's face it - it's never cold enough to be able to stand a bulky mohair sweater. (Unfortunately, I forgot to get a picture of the sweater.) I decided that it really wanted to be a wrap/shawl thing. I was warned about the difficulty of unknitting mohair, but I was not deterred. Actually, it wasn't that bad, probably because the sweater has been worn so infrequently, the fibers never got too tangled. So here's the yarn:

And at the bottom of that monsterous bag still sits the Van Gogh cross-stitch project - I just haven't had the brain for it.