Lots of knitting progress and a doggie too!

I'm doing ever so well with my small-project commute knitting! So far, I've finished a pair of socks, a pair of mittens, and 3 hats. Two of the hats are even gifts. Yay! This morning I started another hat (pattern courtesy of knitty) which will ultimately be a gift, possibly for my brother, as I'm making it out of yarn left over from a sweater I made him a year or two ago. Of course, he hardly needs another hat. I keep trying to knit hats for his finance, and they end up being way too big so he gets them. He's building up a large collection of over-sized women's hats. My problem with the women's hats seems to be that my own head is rather large (no comments from the peanut gallery please) so I miss-judge the size for normal-to-pinhead sized hats. Oh well. He doesn't mind wearing the experiments and it's not like it take long to knit a hat.

Once this hat is done, I'm going to revisit the Hope sweater. The sleeves annoy me. They are too long and floppy and drive me nuts, so I think I'll just pick out the cuffs and a few inches of sleeve and re-do the ribbing. No big deal. The neck is also annoying but might be somewhat harder to fix. I'll have to look at it a bit closer and see if there is anything I can do to pull it in more. Again, this is what I get for following the directions. Never in my life have the sleeves on a sweater been to too big, but there it is.

My current employer allows people to bring their dogs in to work. Not being allergic to dogs, and actually rather liking them, I find this wonderful. I'm able to get my doggie-lust worked out during the day, and don't actually feel quite so compelled to go to SPCA and bring home a dog. But it can be very distracting. Who can work when Bambi is waiting to play with them?