Shades of Gray

I have been knitting with shades of gray and black lately, and I am just about sick of it. For the John Hughes Swap package I worked on this weekend, I made a gray purse...

And a mostly black (with some gray/white) scarf...

Both of these projects turned out to be pretty quick (probably since I was working on them like crazy from Thursday night to make sure I finished by Monday), and I was completely finished with the swap package by Saturday evening. I totally forgot to take pictures of everything in the swap package, but I think unless you're obsessed with The Breakfast Club, the other stuff wouldn't really interest you anyway. (I've been putting off posting these projects until my partner got her package, and she did get it today. She seemed really happy with it, which makes me happy, so it was all worth it.)

After finishing those items, I resumed working on my ribbed shrug, which is made using a yarn twisted with plys of black, gray, and white. The last few rows were taking twenty minutes each to complete, so even though I only had twenty rows left, I didn't finish the thing until Tuesday night. I'm very pleased with how it turned out, and I wore it to work on Wednesday, as shown below. I tried five times to post a different picture that shows the shrug up close, but the computer is not cooperating, so this will have to do. There are other pictures of it in my Flickr sets, though, if you care to see.

I'm already thinking of making another one...maybe in a really soft, black merino wool.

Now, I am working on a sock pattern that has just been published by a fellow Raveler. I am actually the first person to make the sock, so I'm pretty excited about it. My only disappointment is that the yarn I am using is starting to stripe. I would normally choose a different yarn or different pattern, but I am so excited about being the first person (well, second, if you count the designer) to make this pattern that I going to suck it up and keep going anyway. I've already done twice as much as shown below, but here is a sample of how it is looking: