Some FO's to share...

When last we left our intrepid BSJ, it looked like ...

A little origami, some seaming, some cute buttons I'd salvaged from a blouse, and we get...

And Hat 2.0 mostly worked out -

Details: Both garments made for Hubby's cousin's impending baby girl. Approximately 3-6 month size.
Yarn is Jaeger Baby Merino DK, both knit on size 7 needles. Jacket is Elizabeth Zimmermann's Baby Surprise Jacket; hat is Schmeebot's Zeebee, a totally-customizable theoretically-seamless garter-stitch short-rowed beanie. It was a very fast, very fun knit - but I need to practice grafting garter stitch if I'm ever going to make another one. I think Hubby's cousin liked it - "Wow, I can't believe you went to the trouble to make this!" could be back-handed, but I'll persist in my belief that it's not.

On the needles now? Turning

into a felted bag for Mom. I'm using a kind of Fibonacci stripe sequence - but I cast on too many stitches, working in the round - it'll be about 14" wide, post-felting, when I was aiming for more like 11. Two options for dealing with that come to mind:
1) Make the bag "landscape" orientation instead of "portrait".
2) Sew up both open edges instead of just one, felt it, and then slice one short edge open.

I also have no idea what I should do about handles. I've also concluded that I'd better felt a swatch before I go too much farther, because I'm knitting this yarn to a much looser gauge than the last time I felted something out of it. On the bright side, Mom wanted a pocket on her bag; I'll make the swatch match the stripes in the middle part and have at it. :)