Mystery Shawl Clue 2 and the Bun's Blanket

I'm a little late posting these pictures but I made some good knitting progress in February and the beginning of March.
Mystery Shawl is now 14" long and at row 107. I got home from work with a little sunlight left so I took some pictures in natural light. You can see the beads better here:






Finished just in time was a project I've been working on since July, the Bun's Blanket:


The is the Pinwheel Baby Blanket in Blue Sky Alpacas Skinny Dyed cotton color 316 (French blue). I knit it at roughly 6 sts = 1" after machine washing. It softened up nicely but shrunk a little as predicted from the swatch. It came out to about 36" diameter. I did 3/4" seed stitch for a border.






This is a really easy and cool pattern. Setting up the center takes a little work, but then you have 10 sections that get a yarn over increase every other round. It grows as the baby grows if you're knitting for an expected baby. I might have been done a little earlier than I was, but I didn't want to bind off until the baby was full term and then wove in the ends after he was safely arrived.




Here it is in full on the dining table.








And with Cassie, who loves to model knitted items even more than Arthur.

Arthur can be trusted with a swift and ballwinder, however.