Archive Entries for August 2006
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Monday August 28, 2006
Headway
I have been making lots of progress in projects both craft related and in the house. However, this has meant less time spent on the blog or website. When things are going well with more active pursuits, I am always loathe to stop and glue myself back to the computer, so there's been quite a gap. I will try and fill in my undocumented needlework activites in due course.
In the meantime here is the latest sweater I knitted ("Rosa" in Kidsilk Haze). It is a lovely wool to work with - fine but with a larger tension gauge and therefore quick to knit.
The sweater is slightly short for my taste (and figure) but I will have to review what I intend to wear it with. It is supposed to have the frill all down the front but it does not seem to hang like a godet (maybe I did not gather it enough) but I decided to leave it at a rather more staid collar.
I added a Ribbons and Beads Corsage by Sarah Hatton from Rowan book 39 (for modesty's sake - probably necessary also because of my figure....).
I made quite a few of these corsages with left over wool from mutiple "Rivers", and they proved to be a hot-selling item at the Bourne Quilters annual show.
Inexplicably more pleasurable for me was completing a little quilting project. I wanted to make some "Grandmother's Fan" patches, and chose to make them in some nostalgic floral fabrics (mainly "Sentimental Journey" by Robyn Pandolph). I designed a circular needle holder, which opens like a concertina booklet with pockets - if I were going into production, it needs a little refinement, but I was very pleased with how it turned out.
Posted on August 28, 2006 at 6:08 PM. Category: Knitting.
Monday August 14, 2006
Woe, woe, and thrice woe.
Hard disk failure. I may be some time...Posted on August 14, 2006 at 8:24 PM. Category: Oddments and stray thoughts.
