New camera, so scarf photos

I got the updated version of my old camera for college - the Canon PowerShot SD750 Digital Elph - I love it!  The front is this lovely chrome color and the back is black with a much larger screen than my old one.  Plus no scratches.  The older version (older, like, four years older) had 3.1 megapixels and this one has 7.1 - I can finally take detailed pictures of stitches using a macro lens that works!  Without further ado, here is some Striped Illusion progress.

Still coming strong.  I expect to finish this in the next week.  I reached the exciting point where I got to start the pattern over again.

Arabesque

I filled in the chart Berroco provides for the Arabesque blanket I will be making for my dorm room.  I will be using Caron Simply Soft yarn (it really is soft, and shiny) in Violet (F), Dark Country Blue (G), Tapioca (E), Country Blue (B), Light Country Peach (C), Lemonade (A), and Mango (D).  The colors are not exact and are much more brilliant on the website.  The borders will be black.

Photo shoot

Updated photos of the ribbed lace bolero.

Turning a corner

The pattern is beginning to show up.  Just a quick photo update.  

Progress update

The zig zag is beginning to look "on purpose"  by now.  To make this pattern easier, I am translating the chart into "p13, k17" and so forth, into my knitting notebook.  The chart, though I am a visual person, is confusing because the right and wrong sides are both displayed simultaneously and so you have to constantly refer to the key to decipher which stitch to use.  Writing it out allows for you to see the pattern and thus knit a little more mindlessly.  

I am still loving this pattern, I can't wait to finish it!  A few more updates: I want to knit a top-down raglan in black with the UC logo in the middle (not the claw, the cool looking one with the U and the C interlocking).  In addition, I have spontaneously become obsessed with Latvian intarsia mittens and will venture to make a pair now that I have the technique established.

Ross' scarf

Here is some progress of Ross' "Striped Illusion" scarf.  Disregard the colors; they are completely off: the "blackish" looking color is really a rich, deep wine-maroon.  The cream is accurately named "Putty".  

So far, I am really enjoying knitting this scarf!  The book explains intarsia rather well (first time for me) but I'll admit there were ten minutes where I thought I'd have to scrap the pattern and make something else.  But, I figured it out, and the pattern of this is very fun to watch unfold.  The garter stitch also looks rather lovely.  

In addition, my vest is completely blocked and stitched.  All I have left to do is add the trim to the raw edging (thus explaining the curl in the photo).  I am not sure yet whether or not I will follow the trim in the pattern; I would like for it to look a little more sophisticated.

Proof

that my Tia vest will be finished soon, someday, or something.

Quality isn't too good but here is solid evidence that the last piece (of 3) of that vest is in process, after a complicated chart I drew up to help me with the decreases and increases.