Hehe...I can't just do ONE project...I have 3 on the needles/hooks at the moment, with 3 that I'm actively looking to figure out/start....this one is straight off a pattern: This one.
The instructions suggest a solid yarn, but that's BORING, so I'm using a multi-blue yarn called Oceana (pretty color name, no?)

Correction: I just finished the 18 st/22 row swatch, and it's absolutely correct. Now I'm in the process of casting on for the actual first gauntlet. The pattern looks pretty simple, but complex enough to hold my attention, so hopefully it won't take too long.

This scarf is made using a lace pattern stitch from the Reader's Digest guide I mentioned in my introduction. It works up fairly quickly, with 4 pattern reps across. The pattern is 8-9 stitches across and 12 rows long, and it basically produces a vine-like ridge along the fabric along with a matching double rows of lace holes.

So, over the summer I took up both knitting and crocheting, at the suggestion of my grandmother. Being easily bored, I skipped pretty much straight past garter and stockinette stitch knitting and single crochet, to the interesting and funky stuff.
I kind of taught myself using the Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework, and I've been working some out of that on a self-designed project.