The bulk of what I've done so far in knitting is scarves, with four complete projects.
The first thing I ever knitted was a pale green scarf from a pattern in a knitting book from Better Homes and Gardens. It has an interesting pattern that is wavy on one side and blocky on the other. I think the pattern is interesting, but because I was just starting out, I used a low quality yarn and it was both a pain to work with and not very comfy to wear. The scarf is also extremely short for a scarf, since I was anxious to have my first projected completed, and finished it off a few feet before I should have.
The second scarf was a plain garter stitch, made solely because I found some funky green, blue, and yellow yarn on clearance. My first time making tassels (though they aren't attached right and kind of look funny.) This scarf is long and wide and was my most-used scarf in the my last long Wisconsin winter.
The pink scarf is my favorite scarf I've knitting, mostly because of the amazing yarn used. It was my first time working with luxury yarn. It's baby alpaca wool from Misti Alpaca (also where I got the pattern.) It's a nice, simple diagonal stripe pattern (though I still goofed up the pattern at the end, and bound off the piece before I noticed.) I still have a skein of the same yarn (though in grey) and am looking forward to using it. This piece also showed me that if I was rich, I'd spend lots of money in yarn shops.
I just finished the grey and green scarf earlier this afternoon. It was made for my brother, and is the first piece I've done that I intend to give to someone else. I used leftover yarn from a blanket I knitted, and working in a simple moss stitch, adding a small strand of green every six inches or so. I feel like I could have done the stipes differently, but the uneveness of it kind of gives it a funkier, less-former feel, I suppose. This was my first good experience with this type of yarn (Lion's Brand Chenille) which made me want to stab myself while making my blanket. Also my first experience with fringe.