Time to start new projects

Wow,  I'm sooo happy xmas is over and i got all my knitting done !!!!!

Now I get to look thru my new books and choose some new projects to start.  I got Knit it Design it by Debbie Bliss.  I loveit.  I have to admit tho I was a bit upset cause it wasnt what I had expected at all.  I told my dear hubby that I wanted it cause I had thought it was about how to design.  It is ,  but I guess I was thinking more along the lines of a technichal book and this is more about how to change the visual things.  I still love it tho.  There are quite a few ideas I had never thought of myself.  I'm probably gonna try and find a different book on the technichal aspect tho.  I really want to learn about construction.  Like were do you measure for pants and how do you shape the pieces, ect   I am anzious to start developing my own designs.  I already change things in the patterns I knit so I'm 1/2 way there already.

Christmas Knit's

This is the slouch hat for my DD Im sorry about the pic quality I'm kinda new at this lol.  The hat is called Brambles and is a free pattern from Knitty.comhttp://www.knitty.com/ISSUEdf10/PATTbrambles.php

The doily is called Hearts Doily and can be fpound at http://www.crochetmemories.com/archive/february5.html for free.

I am such a procrastinator.  There less than a week before xmas and I am just starting on my brothers hat hahah not to mention that I still have to finish off mom's doilies.  The only things I have finished so far are my daughters hat, a cute little newboy cap my son wanted me to make his GF's baby sister and one pair of doilies for ma.  Im kinda bad about switching projects in the middle of something (huge ufo pile) or frogging when I'm halfway thru because I think of something that I want to change in the design.  So I have decided I have to stay the course and finish these before xmas is here.  Wish me Luck everyone.  I'll try to post a couple picks of my works in progress 

Ribbing Conundrum

Ok I am having a conundrum grrr,  how to make a cast on for ribbing that will seem to have a rolled edge, as if the ribbing on the front "flows" to the ribbing on the back.  I just can't seem to get the edge just right.  I have searched  youtube and the internet for days and havent been able to find one.  I'm doing a 3x2 rib and I'll  post later with all my results  from all the cast on's I know (I think I know em all ) but hey ya never know right.

Hmmm It seems only the estonian(stretchy) cast on produces the effect I want, however this really only works in 1x1 rib,  and also in 2x2 but with a slightly different effect.

So I guess my only option is to make a ribbed hem.  Now I can eighter use the kitchner stitch to do this, and its a bit anpoying to do or I can sew it .  As this is a hat edge that ends just below the ears, I don't want a bulky hem here.  I may have to look into a different option for this edge.