Knitting Here and There..

I attempted at making the Snapdragon mittens, and once I got to about rows 22-25 (I'm not sure what one), the knit stitches didn't match up and the purl stitches didn't match up. I was kinda upset. The mitten was turning out great until that happened. I decided just to rip it out and just not knit for the rest of the week, because I was already at school. When I went home this past weekend, my mom wanted me to make some hats and mittens. For the hat, I made the Snowball Hat by Katie Himmelberg. It's a simple cabled hat. It was a little short for my liking though. On the pattern, it says to work the rounds of the cable pattern a total of five times. When I did that, I thought it looked kinda short, but I just went with it and continued to do what the patterned said. I kinda wish I would've done another repeat of the cable pattern or maybe even two repeats. Then for the crown of the hat, there wasn't very many decreasing rows. I didn't really like that, so I did a couple more, plus with the rows they had written for, there were still about 40 stitches left, maybe even more. I brought the stitches down to 25. I wish I would've written down the decreasing rounds that I had added myself, but I didn't. I could easily figure it out, but I'm too lazy right now. Then, for the mittens, I made "Spruce Tree Mittens" By Emily Benson. They were very quick and easy. I would recommend using a solid color though, just so you would be able to see the cables a little bit better. But, I am going back home tomorrow, so hopefully I find some more tings to knit, maybe for myself this time. But then again, my friend just asked me to make her some cute simple mittens. I haven't had much luck with finding a pattern yet, but hopefully I will soon. If not, I'll just have to think of something off the top of my head!