Elephants make excellent coffeetables

[Obligatory acknowledgment of current chaos and well-wishes for anyone reading this here. I don't want to dwell on it as I think we're all getting inundated, so without further ado...]

The Actual Blog Post

Of course instead of working on the WIPs I had planned to, I decided to start some new ones.

1. This one could be considered just a swatch (2 or 3 hexagon motifs in varying styles, knitted and crocheted) and, as we all know, swatches don't count, so this should actually be zero, technically speaking. 
2. Who doesn't love a plain, seed-stitch scarf? Comfort knitting at its best. Sounds pretty basic, right? Well, never one to leave well enough alone, I had to do *something* to make it a drudgery, so I'm working it with two ends of a nearly-black, very-light-fingering weight, super-sticky-because-of-the-wool-variety's-fiber-texture, oiled-for-machine-knitting-so-entirely-inflexible... yarn, and I've been working on it in dim lighting while watching TV—Ha, take that, sanity!—but at least it is a tweed with red and yellow nepps to help make the stitches a little more obvious. So yeah, black, red, and yellow: all the scariest CAUTION, DANGER, HAZARD colors. (Didn't realize that until just now, but I shall soldier on regardless) I've already got roughly 6" of knitting done on that in just a couple of knitting sessions. It's for my boyfriend who is very tall, so I'm trying to get it to 7 feet in length, if there is enough yarn—and, well, you know... Knock on wood. As the weather is getting warmer it won't be needed for a while, so I might have time to complete it before it gets cold again.
3. This is one I can't wait to finish because it's my first garment in about a decade. It was inspired by my love for Art Deco and the beautiful tarnished silver color I'm working with. I'm trying to decide how I'd like to do the back (as in, plain, or with a stitch pattern), but finishing the front should inform that decision. 

Feeling lazy, so only a couple photos for you today. 

Art Deco Blouse, working title "Maupe" (pronounced "mope") because it's a Mushroomy-Taupe color

This shouldn't be as satisfying as it is because I hate knitting with the yarn, but I'm racing to finish it because I can't wait to block it. Hoping it will transform like an ugly caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly...