Christmas Knits!

As it is the Winter season, I have found my way back to my knitting needles. I hate knitting in the Summer. The feeling of dewy hands wrapped in acrylic yarn grosses me out. I'm not a really skilled knitter yet. My goal this year is to learn to knit in the round. I want to be able to make mitts and toques so badly but every time I pick up a pattern I am massively confused. Why are patterns written in code? This isn't the 1940's. You don't have to worry about any foreign spies stealing sock patterns. Was that a concern in the 1940's? Seems like it might have been.
Anyway, this fall Roots had all sorts of awesome, sock monkey-inspired, knit wear. I wanted it but wasn't about to spend 40 bucks on a scarf (this time). Since I had more time than money that week, I headed to Michael's. Yay! It was 10 am on a Thursday in the middle of November but the place was packed! Apparently they were having some kind of sale that I wasn't aware of until a nice granny gave me an extra 25% off coupon that she had printed from her email.
Here is what has resulted

(also does anyone know how to flip these damn pics?)
I used Patrons Classic Wool. I was fortunate that they not only had a grey sock monkey colour but also the perfect red and a creamy off-white. The colours are much better in person.
I was hoping for mitts but decided I better start with a scarf. I used 6mm needles and cast on forty stitches. It's nice width but if i were to make it again I would make it wider. Wide scarfs seem more luxurious to me.
Tonight I was wrapping more presents and had to wrap a piece of jewellery that didn't come in a box (bc I shop at all the classy places). Rather than wrap it in the plain brown paper and risk loosing it, I quickly knit it a little case.

This one I did on smaller needles (but I don't remember the size). I only cast on 12 stitches. So cute! I knit it while Mike showed me the joys of the Buffy the Vampire Musical episode. Ahh the holidays.