underway knitting

This is what I've got done so far on the kimono-style cardigan we're knitting in my class: have to finish the back piece by Saturday. The raised horizontal-stripe pattern makes a nice break in the (sometimes tedious to knit) stockinette stitch; although I've done three stripes so far, none of which look the same! I should tear it all out and start over ... but I can't do it: I know I'll never redo it, so, since it's the back, I'm just plunging ahead.
One reasson I can't redo are my other time-sensitive projects. This wrap for Peter's son's fiancee; the shower's in two weeks and the wrap is taking longer and requiring more yarn than I anticipated. This is all stockinette, but I wanted something without texture since the handpainted yarn is so variegated.

Then there are these two baby blankets, for Peter's daughter. She's not due till the end of August, but I have a long way to go on these. The yellow one is a pleasure to work on, but the other ... I substituted another, lighter weight, yarn for the one called for in the pattern and am learning (the hard way, of course) the perils of making substitutions: this is going to require a lot more stitches and thus time than it should; and the bump pattern--a row of knit 1, purl 1, then a row of purl 1, knit 1--is awkward to accomplish, moving the yarn back and forth for every stitch, for a beginner like me.

 

This is another project where I made an ill-advised substitution. Another throw, in light cotton, meant to be a birthday present for a friend, so I have until June ... Stalled on it right now, but if I don't get far enough for it to be a throw, I think I'll sew it up around a pillow form!
And these are the projects--along with a barely started black chunky ribbed wrap for me and a cowl in a luscious plummy purple edged in bright green--that I've had to put aside: sampler scarves from my first knitting class. I had bought the green cashmerino ahead of time but when I registered for the classs was told it was too heavy, so I bought the (slightly) lighter maroon yarn and started the project with it. As I went on, I didn't see why the green wouldn't work, so I started knitting it up too. Now I have two 1/4-done scarves.

 

 And finally, yet another throw, this one for my dad. It's all garter stitch and bulky yarn, which means it should knit up quickly, when I get to it. Each stripe is one skein: camel, sky blue, dark blue ... then cream, maroon, heathered brown, sap green. That's the plan.