Mother's Day!

So, unfortunately my Harry Potter items must be put on hiatus for a short time while I finish up my mum's Mother's Day present (and it'll probably have to pass as her bday present too because that's coming up and I'm broke :S). I'm very proud of myself because the shirt that I'm making for my mum is actually starting to look like a shirt. Check out the picture up there... Isn't it just awesome? Okay, well maybe I'm just weird but it's awesome to me. The color, black with silver and gold running through it, is perfect for my mom as is the pattern (Tempting II on knitty.com). She helped pick both out so I know she'll like it and the last time she saw me working on it, it was just a tube so she should be somewhat surprised once I'm done... I hoped to be done by Mother's Day.. but that would mean a lot of work tonight... I'll be close though. Oh, and I love the minimum finishing work. I know that once I start doing sweaters and stuff... the finishing work will be the bane of my existence. I'll put off finishing the project just to avoid the finishing work.. I know it will happen.

Anyway, the first two pictures are my progress so far on my Slytherin scarf and I hope that these pictures assure Sarah that my gray yarn is in fact gray and not pink like it appeared to be in the other picture.

The 3rd picture is of my progress on my mum's shirt. It actually looks like a shirt finally! Also, I'm almost done! The last picture I had to include because I just love the color pattern for this shirt. It's dark.. yet shiny.. Unfortunately, my camera (or maybe it's just me) sucks at taking up close pictures so it's very blurry :'( . Anyway, for anyone who wants to know, the yarn I'm using for the shirt is Red Heart Fiesta. The color is called "black" but as you see, it's not just black.

Wish me luck as I try to finish up this shirt as quickly as possible!