Knitting stuff

Birthday gift for the spousal unit and swatch from Stitches:

The birthday gift is a scarf in the style of scarf my spouse's  grandmother made him

Here is the whole scarf.

I tried a braid pattern that uses reversible rib cables and garter stitch to give it a little asymmetry.

Here is my magic ball swatch finished off from Gwen Bortner's class.  There are three different stitch techniques, but I like the straight magic ball knitting (with texture) best.