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:
If you’re a crafty type who’s really slowed down lately, it’s not too soon to be thinking about what you will make for The Holidays. Things will need to be made for neighbors and party hosts:
This will be green tomato chutney–if you haven’t take out your garden yet, find the Joy of Cooking recipe and make some!
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.
I’ve been pulling fall and winter clothes out of storage and assessing what to hold on to for another season and what I’m really not going to wear any more. I found this sweatshirt dress I made last year and realized I never wore it very much because of the color.
I have a clown-like love of bright colors but in this case it made me feel like a great big cyan color swatch (it’s considerably brighter in person than in the photo). So this is happening:
I don’t have a particularly successful track record of dyeing things, but I figure that if it doesn’t turn out well I’ll just have a dress I don’t wear, which is pretty much the current situation anyway. Stay tuned!
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 finished off the bottom of Skyler’s sweater and bought some buttons, but I haven’t started the sleeves yet so it looks pretty much the same as it did last week. Let’s look at some fabric instead!
I’ve been avoiding “the F word” (fall) but the fact that I had to get out Toby’s space heater for the 50-degree mornings is a clue that I can’t deny it much longer.
Fortunately there’s (from left to right) wool suiting, cotton-silk print that’s a mill end from J. Crew, and some leafy French rayon to help with the acceptance process.(All three are from the local Yellow Bird Fabrics.)
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!