Knitting Frenzy!

Here are some pictures of the project I'm working on right now. They're felted hunting mittens for my dad. The right mitten has a little hole where the trigger finger can easily come out of the mitten (and I never thought I'd type a sentence like that in my life...). I'm using the Adult Mittens pattern from the Beverly Galeskas Felted Knits book, and modifying it a bit for the finger hole. I found this hunter orange colored yarn in Cascade 220, if anyone is interested. Here are the pictures. The first is of the mitten half done, and the second is the mitten all knitted, but not felted.

After finishing the mittens, I plan on making a felted bag for my mom. I'm going to use the "At-Odds Felted Purse" from the Theresa Gaffey Designs and use my favorite yarn, Cascade 220. I attemped to make a center-pull ball out of two of these skeins. We'll see if it worked, or if I'm going to have one giant tangled-yarn mess on my hands.