Almost Finished And Finished

I'll start with the almost finished, does anybody know what the heck I'm doing here? This is a little clutch bag that I whipped up to go with the hat that is waiting to be felted. No wait, I did that last night but hasn't dried enough to photograph on my head yet.

This is a four, yup, I said four needle cast off. Two layers of knitting with an I-cord in between. I picked up the stitches on the I-cord and cast everything off together. A bit of a challenge for arthritic fingers though...



This is what it looks like before felting. See how pretty the I-cord looks now.



And these socks go back to August before I left for Greece. I finally finished them last night and I sure am glad. The weather has turned really cold and I need all the woolies I can get on my feet.