ATCs and yummy yarn

I hope everyone enjoyed their October.  This past month I did a few little projects, and one big one.  The big project I did was a crochet pattern - the froufrou sweater from the Happy Hooker book.  It's a pretty easy cardigan pattern, and I used some yummy yarn I bought at the Lamb Shoppe.  I used Aslan Trends Invernal which is a angora, merino and nylon blend.  It's so soft and warm, and super easy to work with.  A bit pricey, but I had extra play money last month.  I used just over 5 skeins.  I'd guess I used right around a yard from the 6th skein.  The body was done in granite stitch and the boarder was done by pulling up loops and joining them together, with a chain 3 joining the groups.

I also crocheted myself some hand warmers for my car using acrylic scrap leftovers.  They were done using a DROPS design I found on ravelry - 108-25 crocheted shell wrist warmers.  It was a free pattern :o)

 
Finally I joined some ATC swaps on craftster.org and finally made some new Artist Trading Cards.  The themes I had were my hometown, handdrawn map, gingerbread, and ladies of the seasons.  I have some more cards to do this weekend, so my next post will have more ATC fun.  If you like papercrafts at all these are a lot of fun to make, and are the size of a baseball card.