A Few Finished Objects

I have a few finished projects. Nothing big, really.

I have a finished purse. I made it using Future Girl's Starling Handbag pattern. Great pattern, good instructions. Go look at her tutorials, too. She has a fabulous one on paperclip stitch markers, and an awesome one on lining a crocheted (or knitted or felted!) bag. Wish I had had that when I did the lining for my felted bag a couple months ago!

I also made a few dishcloths. Here are two I did with a double ended crochet hook. You can call it crochet, you can call it cro-hook, you can call it tunisian crochet, or you can call it crochenit. It's all really the same thing. No wrong side, two colors, a double ended hook. It was fun and quick!
I also made a hat and a scarf using the same technique. The scarf is done with Caron Simply Soft yarn, so it is, well, soft. The hat is done with some of the yarn I got free. I can't tell whether it was the yarn or the double ended hook (this one had a cable) I was using, but the hat took me forever it felt like.
Then I made a couple hats from a pattern from Laughing Willow, who was wonderful about answering my questions when I had them. I tried to do the brim/ribbing at the end, but it was just getting too, kind of wavy, I guess, and sort of belling out. So I left them as rolled brim, which looks pretty good. My daughter immediately decided she needed this one:
Which I had intended to give to charity. But it was a bit small, and it fit her, so that's ok. This one is not being kept here, though:
I should have taken a picture of the tops of the hats; there is a subtle pinwheel effect on the top, made by the colors as the hat is decreased. These are tunisian crochet in the round. Very easy and quick. The top one is done in Caron Simply Soft, and the bottom in Red Heart Super Saver (the black) and Lion Brand Homespun (the gray). You can wear these on the other side as well, and they have more of a stripey effect.

These pictures are of a scarf I did, also in tunisian crochet, also from Laughing Willow. It is done with some of my free yarn, which is kind of like the Lion Brand Homespun in texture. These pictures are before washing. If the scarf is anything like the afghan I made with this yarn, it is going to fluff up quite a bit after it is washed.
You can't really tell from the pictures, but there is a different look on the back and the front. Tunisian in one color is worked only from the right side, working the stitches onto the needle as you work from right to left, then working the stitches off the needle as you go left to right. I did this one with a big crochenit hook.

I'm having fun with the tunisian crochet. I want to get a pattern book I've seen that has 101 stitches for double ended crochet hooks. It would be fun to work up a scrap afghan with all the different stitches.

I've got another major project I am working on, though, one I'm very excited about. You'll have to wait and see......