I hardly feel as though these tiny baby projects count. I am able to finish a hat or bib in just a day or two. Last weekend I knit 2 bibs, and during the week I started and finished a tiny, tiny hat.

• Pattern: Baby Bib o' Love from Mason-Dixon Knitting
• Size 6 needles
• Peaches and Creme Cotton in Peppercorn Ombre and Trick or Treat

These are combinations of two patterns from Mason-Dixon Knitting, the Baby Bib o' Love and the Baby Genius Burp cloth. I used the original number of cast on stitches for the pastel bib, but used the slip-stitch pattern from the burp cloth pattern. For the "Giants" bib, I cast on 50 stitches instead of 40, and then decreased at either end when it was time to make the straps.

I frequently need a "palate cleanser" project when I just get sick of all my other projects, and more often than not, that project involves kitchen cotton. I hardly ever knit with cotton, but the skeins are so small that I use it up quickly. It's the thrill of casting on a new project and the guilt-free result of finishing it fast, and I can go back to slogging through larger projects again.

• Pattern: Easy Peasy Baby Hat by Keri McKiernan
• Size 1 needles
• Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Jeans

This a great way to use up little bits of sock yarn. It's a tiny hat! I'll probably use it for the trip home from the birth center. I love little hats. I might make some extras and give them to the midwives to give to other moms for their babies.

• Pattern: Basic Glove pattern from The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns
• Size 2 needles
• Lana Grossa Cashmere Plus (discontinued)

I started these gloves, and to me they just seem too big, but Walker insists that they are just right. I think he wants me to finish them sooner rather than later. It would be nice to use up this yarn that's been in my stash since 2006. I made a pair of gloves for myself with this same yarn in another color, and they are good for the milder winters we get here.

Finally, I started a little something for myself. It seems as though everyone is knitting scarves by Stephen West, and with good reason. They are all interesting shapes and suit men and women equally well. As part of the podcast, Natalie and I wanted to do a knitalong, and our theme is "cloudy knits". I am making the Daybreak Shawl with Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock in "Cloudy with a Chance" (how could I pass up that colorway?!) and "Saffron Surprise". I'm excited to have something for myself in my favorite color combination.

• Daybreak Shawl by Stephen West
• Size 5 needles
• Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Mediumweight in "Cloudy with a Chance" and "Saffron Surprise"

I had started knitting and was making a good bit of progress, but I wasn't doing the increases correctly. That'll teach me to read the directions!