Over the long weekend I made a valiant effort to finish (or at least start) a few projects in the queue, in between eating pie for breakfast. Another pair of boot toppers for a friend are DONE:
The rayon dress has sleeves and half a collar (but is still looking a little Laura Ingalls Wilder; I’m not sure about this one):
And 4 out of 8 kitty blankets are cut out (but not fringed). Maybe my helper needs to be a little more helpful:
Skyler’s sweater is finally done! It came out somewhere between “Hobbit child” and “Oxford scholar who writes about hobbits.” I can’t wait to see it on him.
I don’t know if I have that many knitters reading along, but here are some knitterly details:
I’ve been meaning to finish that rayon dress for the last two weekends but fall yard cleanups have pushed it back, so it’s still sleeveless. But I did get some little things done (literally, tee hee): Tiny 4 ounce jars of green tomato chutney:
Good crafty news: I finished the real knitting part on Skyler’s sweater last night. Now I just need to sew up the hood seam at the top and figure out how I want to do the buttons.
In other good news, I successfully dyed that sweatshirt dress to a more muted turquoise. Hooray for liquid Rit dye and my big kitchen sink!
I’m trying to finish up the current projects so Skyler can have his sweater while he still fits in it and I can get a few more things sewn before it’s too cold to wear anything but sweaters and boots. For Skyler’s sweater, there’s a sleeve done now. I think I can get this wrapped up in the next couple of weeks.
For sewing, the rayon that was a pile of pieces is now a dress front and a somewhat reduced pile of pieces. It’s looking really “Little House on the Prairie Maternity” right now but I have hopes that it will get better as I add more parts.
This past week I started a sewing project and a sleeve on the nephew’s sweater. Things are getting wild over here! For sewing, I cut out the rayon from the fall fabric pile–it wants to be a Wiksten “Tova” dress to wear with leggings and boots. Considering the last thing I sewed was the long dress in July, I think this is good progress.
In sweater news, the body is finished, I have one sleeve started, and I bought buttons. I think this can go pretty quickly to the end now (which is good, because Skyler isn’t getting any smaller).
I ended up not being able to sleep in said car at all, plus I had some downtime on the actual vacation, so I was very glad I brought two extra balls of yarn for Skyler’s sweater. I’ll be on to the sleeves soon!
There’s a road trip going down and I can almost gaurnatee that I won’t be needed as a relief driver. So what will I be doing (besides sleeping the width of Nevada)? Knitting!
I’ll be working on Skyler’s little Hobbit sweater (here’s the beginnings of the hood) and expect to make a lot of progress. I’m even packing extra yarn.
I finished the boot toppers and they were such a satisfying project: The cables kept thing interesting, they were small enough that you saw real progress even with a short amount of knitting time, and they used up leftover yarn.
So I was pretty happy when my friend asked for a pair for herself–more cables and nearly-instant gratification ahead!
The knitting lately has been more of the “sneak in two rows here and there” variety than the “sit down for two hours of a movie and go for it” type, but I’m making a little progress.