From the monthly archives:

April 2009

dancing dressThis fabric is so soft and stretchy, I knew it would be a dress for me one day. The blue color was gorgeous.  My friend asked me if I wanted to go dancing this Saturday night, so today was the day.

This was my first attempt at draping and it was harder than I thought it would be. I stuck myself with pins several times. Ow!

I started out with four rectangles and sewed them together in a T shape. I had to do a lot of pinning on the sides to get it fitted just right and I couldn’t decide how to do the sleeves. I must have stood in front of the mirror in my sewing room with pins in my mouth changing the top over and over again for an hour and a half.

The finished product:

fyi: I don’t wear that much makeup ever, unless I’m going dancing.

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Shawl Collar Vest

April 15, 2009

I started this on Friday, I think. I was emboldened by the two baby sweaters I just completed and now I’m making a sweater for myself. Not a whole sweater obviously, a vest doesn’t have sleeves.
The yarn is Caron Simply Soft in Autumn Red. The needles are 5 mm.

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Sophisticated Baby

April 14, 2009

This is for my sisters new baby, who hasn’t arrived yet. They aren’t telling us whether it’s a boy or girl but I still wanted to have color in it. I think the dark teal can work for either. I haven’t found buttons for it yet, unless you think bright red would do? I’m waffling [...]

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Raglan Baby Sweater

April 10, 2009

I love non-traditional colors for baby clothes. And I love stripes. And I love my friend Michelle enough to knit her baby a whole sweater. Her baby will be so handsome in this:
I’m done. That’s 3 days of knitting. Gotta love how fast baby sweaters knit up. So fast. And if you make them too [...]

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Cloud Scarf Done

April 9, 2009

It’s gorgeous, if I do say so myself. Light and fluffy and so, so soft. This was only one ball of yarn and a teeny bit from the next ball. I can wear it like a scarf around my neck or like a shawl around my shoulders. It’s surprisingly warm.
My notes on the pattern are [...]

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