I'll have more to share once I steal more photos from my mom, we get our photos back from our photographer, and I download the honeymoon photos. But for now: everything was great!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
We're hitched
I'll have more to share once I steal more photos from my mom, we get our photos back from our photographer, and I download the honeymoon photos. But for now: everything was great!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Saturday's errand outfit
This was the last weekend before the wedding, and it was full of errands and unexpectedly getting a dead car battery replaced. One of the errands took us to Wisconsin, where we stopped for lunch at the new Mars Cheese Castle. So all I have time for this week is just a quick outfit post!
I'm wearing a sundress I purchased at VLV this spring, a beige beaded cardigan (because it was actually quite chilly) from Etsy, carrying a wicker basket purse with lucite handles from Etsy, and wearing a pair of shoes that I just purchased from Lauren at Wearing History! They are cream-colored wedges from the 1940s. Aren't they great? I can't wait to wear them in autumn with jeans, a casual sweater and white blouse for a vintage campus look.
The next several days will include last minute projects, cleaning, preparations and trying to decide how the heck to style my bangs for the wedding...you know, the important stuff. ;)
Have a great week, everyone!
I'm wearing a sundress I purchased at VLV this spring, a beige beaded cardigan (because it was actually quite chilly) from Etsy, carrying a wicker basket purse with lucite handles from Etsy, and wearing a pair of shoes that I just purchased from Lauren at Wearing History! They are cream-colored wedges from the 1940s. Aren't they great? I can't wait to wear them in autumn with jeans, a casual sweater and white blouse for a vintage campus look.
The next several days will include last minute projects, cleaning, preparations and trying to decide how the heck to style my bangs for the wedding...you know, the important stuff. ;)
Have a great week, everyone!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Weddingish things
Less than two weeks until the wedding! So I thought it was high time I share some details with you.
I'm feeling good about everything. Not too stressed. Just enough relaxed. Most things on the "to do" list are minor at this point, with the exception of a couple of small projects involving embroidery.
The only things I'm annoyed about are the huge zit on my chin, the cut I just gave myself on one of the knuckles on my left hand earlier today, and the two scars I've managed to give myself on my left hand/wrist over the last few weeks. For the record one was from some small cut I got at the airport coming back from New Mexico, and the other was a minor incident with a cast iron skillet last week. All three (zit excepting, of course) are on the hand that will likely be the center of some wedding ring photos. Geez!
This past weekend we finalized our wedding site. Yes, that probably sounds funny to you since the wedding is next Friday. But we're doing a guerrilla wedding. And as such, I'm not actually going to tell you the location until after the fact (not that most of you would know where it was anyway!). Fear not—we're not trespassing or going anywhere we shouldn't. It will be held on public land in a lovely location in Chicago. So lovely, in fact, that we saw a deer when we went to walk around the site this past Saturday. Actually we saw another one but I didn't have the camera ready for the second deer. We definitely considered this guy a good sign.
We have our outfits set. I won't share all the details, but here are a few glimpses. It shall be a fairly vintage wedding, not surprisingly.
A bit of Mel's hand-painted vintage tie...
The label of my vintage dress...
It's a rather casual dress, but I love it. Judging from the style and A-line skirt, I'm guessing it's probably WWII-era. The colors are so rich and vibrant! I didn't actually buy it thinking of it as a wedding dress, it was a dress that sidetracked me on Etsy while I was looking for wedding dresses. But once I saw it in person I fell in love and decided it was The Dress. Here's one more little detail, part of the collar...
I'll be wearing several pieces of jewelry. The only thing that won't be my engagement ring/wedding ring or family jewelry is this celluloid bracelet. The picture is a bit fuzzy but I thought it was funny that Dinah traipsed through the shot...
The other pieces of jewelry will be family pieces, some of the very few I have. My "something borrowed" will be my mom's pearl necklace. My "something old" (other than the vintage clothes, lol) will be a ring of my grandmother on my dad's side, and a vintage brooch and clip on earring set of my grandmother on my mom's side. Here's a photo of the brooch...
My "something new" will be vintage-inspired underthings that need not be mentioned. ;) And my "something blue" will be a handkerchief my mom is supplying that was my great-grandmother's! Pink with blue flowers, which I'll tuck into the self-belt on my dress. Here's the photo my mom sent me of it when she was on the hunt for blue, isn't it so pretty and delicate?
Speaking of my mom, she knit me a wonderful wedding shawl in less than a week! It all started with an idea, and a coincidence, and then a discussion via email about who was going to knit it, her or I, which resulted in her saying, "Let me rephrase this. Your mom would love to knit this for you." Doesn't that just tickle you? So off in the mail to her went the yummy silk-blend yarn that had been in my stash just waiting for the perfect project. It's the palest, palest yellow, almost white. And she's already finished it! Here's her photo of it blocking:
It's a lovely wee little shawlette. The pattern is called Buttercup (Ravelry link). I can't wait to see it in person. Doesn't it look gorgeous? Light and airy and perfect.
Speaking of wedding crafts, I have only one on my plate. I'm embroidering vintage handkerchiefs for both Mel and I for the wedding. Mine will actually be used as part of our ring bearer pillow that our nieces will be sharing duty of, but I won't explain how I'm creating that until after the wedding (partially because the details aren't completely decided upon!). But I will show you just a smidge of my handkerchief...
I actually have never embroidered lettering before, so I did a practice run on a piece of muslin in preparation, after reading this series of tutorials at Needle n' Thread. I used split stitch (which I discovered I'd been doing wrong!), and practiced making the back of my work look decent. More decent than I'd ever bothered to do for embroidering on kitchen towels, anyhow, since I figured a wedding hankie would have a bit more longevity!
Here's a sample of my test stitching...
I also learned how to embroider without creating knots (starting it with a waste knot and ending it by pulling it through), something I didn't read about until after I'd worked the letters shown in this photo...
So there you have it, my pre-wedding round-up. I can't wait to share more details after the weekend festivities are complete! Things kick off next Friday with the ceremony and dinner afterward, and our first party the next day. Please understand if you don't hear much from me between now and next weekend. The "to do" list isn't that long, but I'm sure I'll soon find many things that are missing from it! ;)
I'm feeling good about everything. Not too stressed. Just enough relaxed. Most things on the "to do" list are minor at this point, with the exception of a couple of small projects involving embroidery.
The only things I'm annoyed about are the huge zit on my chin, the cut I just gave myself on one of the knuckles on my left hand earlier today, and the two scars I've managed to give myself on my left hand/wrist over the last few weeks. For the record one was from some small cut I got at the airport coming back from New Mexico, and the other was a minor incident with a cast iron skillet last week. All three (zit excepting, of course) are on the hand that will likely be the center of some wedding ring photos. Geez!
This past weekend we finalized our wedding site. Yes, that probably sounds funny to you since the wedding is next Friday. But we're doing a guerrilla wedding. And as such, I'm not actually going to tell you the location until after the fact (not that most of you would know where it was anyway!). Fear not—we're not trespassing or going anywhere we shouldn't. It will be held on public land in a lovely location in Chicago. So lovely, in fact, that we saw a deer when we went to walk around the site this past Saturday. Actually we saw another one but I didn't have the camera ready for the second deer. We definitely considered this guy a good sign.
We have our outfits set. I won't share all the details, but here are a few glimpses. It shall be a fairly vintage wedding, not surprisingly.
A bit of Mel's hand-painted vintage tie...
The label of my vintage dress...
It's a rather casual dress, but I love it. Judging from the style and A-line skirt, I'm guessing it's probably WWII-era. The colors are so rich and vibrant! I didn't actually buy it thinking of it as a wedding dress, it was a dress that sidetracked me on Etsy while I was looking for wedding dresses. But once I saw it in person I fell in love and decided it was The Dress. Here's one more little detail, part of the collar...
I'll be wearing several pieces of jewelry. The only thing that won't be my engagement ring/wedding ring or family jewelry is this celluloid bracelet. The picture is a bit fuzzy but I thought it was funny that Dinah traipsed through the shot...
The other pieces of jewelry will be family pieces, some of the very few I have. My "something borrowed" will be my mom's pearl necklace. My "something old" (other than the vintage clothes, lol) will be a ring of my grandmother on my dad's side, and a vintage brooch and clip on earring set of my grandmother on my mom's side. Here's a photo of the brooch...
My "something new" will be vintage-inspired underthings that need not be mentioned. ;) And my "something blue" will be a handkerchief my mom is supplying that was my great-grandmother's! Pink with blue flowers, which I'll tuck into the self-belt on my dress. Here's the photo my mom sent me of it when she was on the hunt for blue, isn't it so pretty and delicate?
Speaking of my mom, she knit me a wonderful wedding shawl in less than a week! It all started with an idea, and a coincidence, and then a discussion via email about who was going to knit it, her or I, which resulted in her saying, "Let me rephrase this. Your mom would love to knit this for you." Doesn't that just tickle you? So off in the mail to her went the yummy silk-blend yarn that had been in my stash just waiting for the perfect project. It's the palest, palest yellow, almost white. And she's already finished it! Here's her photo of it blocking:
It's a lovely wee little shawlette. The pattern is called Buttercup (Ravelry link). I can't wait to see it in person. Doesn't it look gorgeous? Light and airy and perfect.
Speaking of wedding crafts, I have only one on my plate. I'm embroidering vintage handkerchiefs for both Mel and I for the wedding. Mine will actually be used as part of our ring bearer pillow that our nieces will be sharing duty of, but I won't explain how I'm creating that until after the wedding (partially because the details aren't completely decided upon!). But I will show you just a smidge of my handkerchief...
I actually have never embroidered lettering before, so I did a practice run on a piece of muslin in preparation, after reading this series of tutorials at Needle n' Thread. I used split stitch (which I discovered I'd been doing wrong!), and practiced making the back of my work look decent. More decent than I'd ever bothered to do for embroidering on kitchen towels, anyhow, since I figured a wedding hankie would have a bit more longevity!
Here's a sample of my test stitching...
I also learned how to embroider without creating knots (starting it with a waste knot and ending it by pulling it through), something I didn't read about until after I'd worked the letters shown in this photo...
So there you have it, my pre-wedding round-up. I can't wait to share more details after the weekend festivities are complete! Things kick off next Friday with the ceremony and dinner afterward, and our first party the next day. Please understand if you don't hear much from me between now and next weekend. The "to do" list isn't that long, but I'm sure I'll soon find many things that are missing from it! ;)
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Memorial Day camping trip
How is it already almost the weekend? I've been confused about the day of the week all week, because of the holiday on Monday. I finally had some time to pull together photos from our camping trip to Wisconsin last weekend.
We woke up bright and early Saturday morning for the drive up to Wisconsin. And by bright and early, I do mean bright and early. We were on the road by 6 a.m. I never used to think I would ever become a morning person, but in the last year or two we've found ourselves getting up much earlier than we ever used to. There really is something awesome about being done with your road trip and setting up your campsite by 8:30 a.m.! We were already out on a hike by about 10 o'clock.
You'll see in that photo a reoccurring theme in all these pictures, which is my braids doing goofy things. I tried to come up with a relatively easy hairstyle for camping, but because of the way I pulled my bangs back, that hair was significantly shorter than the rest and spent most of the weekend sticking awkwardly out of my braids. Oh well!
The hike was on a leisurely trail that we really like that goes through forested areas and meadows. This is one of my favorite spots, and interesting little clearing with a bench.
There were lovely wildflowers blooming...
And it was so green!
Now we're the kind of people who almost never let their dog off leash, and certainly not somewhere where you aren't supposed to. But in one area of the trail, with no one around, we felt safe in letting Pia off leash for a game of fetch for a couple of minutes.
Yes, she's actually airborne!
Back on the campsite she was pooped out...
On Sunday we were waiting for our friends to arrive and had to endure a few hours of rain under our rain shelter. Can you see it dripping down the sides?
It wasn't that bad though. I knit and Mel read from The Princess Bride aloud. (We're trying to finish the book before the wedding—it's one of my all-time favorite movies.) We even set their tent up ahead of time for them in case it continued to rain the rest of the day. Fortunately it only lasted for a few hours, and it was done by the time they arrived. Though we had to dry out a few things...
And boy, was I was really glad to have my wellies with me on this trip. I wore them almost the whole time. This was my "vintage camping chic" look, ha ha!
We met our friends in town for lunch that afternoon when they arrived, but once we all got back on the campsite a toast was in order because it was Mel's birthday!
It was shortly after the rain stopped that I started to be annoyed that the sides of the rain shelter made you have to duck under it each time you wanted to get to the picnic table. However every good knitter is armed with a needle and spare yarn, so I whipped up a quick fix.
I simply threaded a strand of yarn through the holes in the mesh and tied the sides up higher. Perfect!
Actually I did a lot of knitting that weekend...
We all had a late dinner by the light of a mantle lantern. We had a variety of things including hot dogs, veggie burgers, potato salad and fresh grilled asparagus.
And last but not least, here's Mel starting a camp fire. Of course there were s'mores later that night over the fire! With yummy Cadbury Dairy Milk that Emma brought back home from Wales for the chocolate, which of course is far superior to our American standard of using a Hershey bar.
Overall it was a great camping trip, and we're really glad to have another one planned at the beginning of July!
We woke up bright and early Saturday morning for the drive up to Wisconsin. And by bright and early, I do mean bright and early. We were on the road by 6 a.m. I never used to think I would ever become a morning person, but in the last year or two we've found ourselves getting up much earlier than we ever used to. There really is something awesome about being done with your road trip and setting up your campsite by 8:30 a.m.! We were already out on a hike by about 10 o'clock.
You'll see in that photo a reoccurring theme in all these pictures, which is my braids doing goofy things. I tried to come up with a relatively easy hairstyle for camping, but because of the way I pulled my bangs back, that hair was significantly shorter than the rest and spent most of the weekend sticking awkwardly out of my braids. Oh well!
The hike was on a leisurely trail that we really like that goes through forested areas and meadows. This is one of my favorite spots, and interesting little clearing with a bench.
There were lovely wildflowers blooming...
And it was so green!
Now we're the kind of people who almost never let their dog off leash, and certainly not somewhere where you aren't supposed to. But in one area of the trail, with no one around, we felt safe in letting Pia off leash for a game of fetch for a couple of minutes.
Yes, she's actually airborne!
Back on the campsite she was pooped out...
On Sunday we were waiting for our friends to arrive and had to endure a few hours of rain under our rain shelter. Can you see it dripping down the sides?
It wasn't that bad though. I knit and Mel read from The Princess Bride aloud. (We're trying to finish the book before the wedding—it's one of my all-time favorite movies.) We even set their tent up ahead of time for them in case it continued to rain the rest of the day. Fortunately it only lasted for a few hours, and it was done by the time they arrived. Though we had to dry out a few things...
And boy, was I was really glad to have my wellies with me on this trip. I wore them almost the whole time. This was my "vintage camping chic" look, ha ha!
We met our friends in town for lunch that afternoon when they arrived, but once we all got back on the campsite a toast was in order because it was Mel's birthday!
It was shortly after the rain stopped that I started to be annoyed that the sides of the rain shelter made you have to duck under it each time you wanted to get to the picnic table. However every good knitter is armed with a needle and spare yarn, so I whipped up a quick fix.
I simply threaded a strand of yarn through the holes in the mesh and tied the sides up higher. Perfect!
Actually I did a lot of knitting that weekend...
We all had a late dinner by the light of a mantle lantern. We had a variety of things including hot dogs, veggie burgers, potato salad and fresh grilled asparagus.
And last but not least, here's Mel starting a camp fire. Of course there were s'mores later that night over the fire! With yummy Cadbury Dairy Milk that Emma brought back home from Wales for the chocolate, which of course is far superior to our American standard of using a Hershey bar.
Overall it was a great camping trip, and we're really glad to have another one planned at the beginning of July!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Briar Rose Vintage KAL: Finished sweater round-up!
It's been a wonderful experience leading you all through it. I learned some things about my own knitting and my knitting processes along the way. I hope I've helped you gain confidence in your own knitting skills and your ability to resize a sweater pattern, and hope you'll want to seek out more vintage knitting patterns in the future!
I'd like to share my own finished sweater photos. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. My only annoyance is that I didn't actually measure the length between my armpit and elbow, so my sleeves are about an inch longer than I would have liked (you can tell because the ribbing bunches in my elbow a bit), and I probably could have stood to cast on a few less stitches for the sleeve in general. But minor quibbles on a sweater that will hopefully fill a big hole in my wardrobe.
My gauge was 6.5 stitches per inch over 9 rows on size 3.0mm needles, working the ribbing, collar and pocket on 2.75mm needles. I knit plain sleeve caps instead of pleated ones, worked the collar by picking up stitches along the neck (described in this post), worked short row shoulders with a three needle bind off and knit the body in the round to the armholes. I knit it with approximately 2 inches of negative ease at the bust, and knit the body 13.5" tall from the cast on edge to the beginning of the armhole bind off.
I love how the buttons matched. They have a teensy little rhinestone in the middle with gold rays spreading out from them. And I love the little pocket! Wouldn't it be cute with a tiny little hankie sticking out?
I usually wear my vintage sweaters pulled down, but I also like the look that you see with some vintage sweaters, where you hike it up a bit at your waist and let the eased length sit on top of the ribbing. I think in order for that to work more successfully however (i.e. not shift around while I'm wearing it), I'd need to knit the ribbing with a couple inches of negative ease, too, which I don't usually do but may start to in the future.
Overall I'm very happy with my Briar Rose, and I hope to get a lot of wear out of it this summer!
(In case you're curious about the rest of my outfit, those are my Heyday trousers on which I swapped the buttons for red vintage ones, and Sven clogs which aren't vintage at all but oh oh OH, how I love them.)
Finished sweater round-up!
Now, it's time to show off YOUR Briar Rose sweaters!
I know there are several of you who have finished your Briar Rose sweaters already. Some have already been posted to the Flickr group pool, and I encourage anyone who finishes after the deadline to post their photos in the group as well! I will of course leave the group open as a record of our knit-along. I'm also borrowing an idea from Casey's Swing Dress Sew-Along and including a way for you to add a link to your finished Briar Rose to this post, so everyone can see it and celebrate with you! You can link it to your blog post or a Flickr photo.
Please add your link below (and feel free to include a link in the comments on this post, too):
Thanks for joining in this challenge and trusting me as your fearless leader! I definitely hope to host some vintage knit-alongs in the future (though it'll probably be a few months before I can contemplate another one, lol). If you've got any ideas for what you might like to participate in, please do let me know via comment or email!
Congratulations, everyone!!
A busy bee
I have been so, so busy lately. I have not even had time to think about writing a proper post other than for the knit-along, and I am so behind in my feed reader! So in no particular order, I'm going to do a short list of things that have been on my mind lately.
1. Okay, I admit this one is in the correct order. First and foremost on my mind has been wedding preparations. June 17th fast approaches, and even though we're planning this to be as low-key as possible, there have been all sorts of things that have come up along the way, including craft projects. I'm going to dedicate a post to it all soon, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that today is the very first day couples can apply for a civil union license in the state of Illinois. A historic day for our state! (We'll be getting our license next Friday.)
2. I have decided I might be ready to try shorts again. Maybe. I think the last time I wore shorts was when I still thought it was okay to wear opaque tights with cut offs. Suffice it to say that was (fortunately) many, many years ago. This time I'm thinking 40s style, with more modest coverage than you typically see in modern shorts. Now I haven't sewn pants yet, but shorts are just short pants anyway, right? Why not start there, seeing as it's almost summer? I have been wanting to buy Wearing History's Smooth Sailing pattern for ages for the trousers, but think they'd also be splendid as shorts. I also like the shorts from Lauren's Sailor Girl Playsuit pattern (Casey made a lovely pair that look very versatile). I did buy the vintage pattern below, which has three styles of shorts. I like view 3 the best. I think I may like the pleats in view 1, too, but I would definitely start with view 3. I don't have the pattern in hand yet to know how "Simple to Make" they actually are, and I'm wondering how they would look without a cuff.
What do you think? And what would be a good fabric selection for shorts? I'm thinking solid colors, and something machine washable. Cotton twill? A linen blend (I'm thinking a blend so they wouldn't wrinkle when I sneeze)? I am still pretty much a dunderhead when it comes to selecting fabric, I admit!
3. I have two sweaters going at the same time on my needles. After finishing up Briar Rose (pictures later today!) and the black sleeveless shell I wore at VLV, I was desperately in need of some knitting that involved a) color and b) something other than stockinette. One is red and a vintage-inspired modern pattern, Henrietta Maria. I'll be reversing the original color scheme and am making a couple of minor alterations to better fit my vintage aesthetic, which mainly involves adding a bit of length to the body and the ribbing and knitting slightly longer sleeves.
The other is robin's egg blue, the vintage pattern It Cannot Fail to Please from A Stitch in Time Vol. 1 that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, modified to work in DK weight yarn.
Both are distracting me from working on any sewing projects whatsoever. (When I'm busy it's so much easier for me to contemplate sitting down with a knitting project than a sewing project.) I'm knitting both in Cascade Ultra Pima, a DK weight cotton that I have fallen in love with. It's lovely to knit and comes in a great variety of colors, both major pluses in my book. The sweaters will be short-sleeved and should be weather-appropriate for all but the hottest and muggiest days, I'm hoping.
4. While I haven't talked about it, I have not forgotten about my Handmade Vintage Wardrobe Challenge. I just haven't had the time to blog about it or give it much thought! But both of my current sweaters fit into my challenge color palette, as did Briar Rose and the two sewing projects I finished for VLV.
I desperately wanted to participate in Sunni's Ginger Sew-Along and turn Ginger into a pinafore with some navy gabardine in my stash, but I couldn't get it together in time. I hope to tackle that after the wedding, even if my wool-blend gab is less than weather appropriate at that point. By then I should be able to focus more on sewing, too. I have so many ideas in my head that I haven't been able to explore due to lack of time!
5. We went camping in Wisconsin over the long Memorial Day weekend and while we met with some rain on one of the days, we did not wash away in the major storms that hit Illinois and Wisconsin. I'll post pictures of our trip in the next few days, but here's a preview!
1. Okay, I admit this one is in the correct order. First and foremost on my mind has been wedding preparations. June 17th fast approaches, and even though we're planning this to be as low-key as possible, there have been all sorts of things that have come up along the way, including craft projects. I'm going to dedicate a post to it all soon, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that today is the very first day couples can apply for a civil union license in the state of Illinois. A historic day for our state! (We'll be getting our license next Friday.)
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| {source: Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune} |
2. I have decided I might be ready to try shorts again. Maybe. I think the last time I wore shorts was when I still thought it was okay to wear opaque tights with cut offs. Suffice it to say that was (fortunately) many, many years ago. This time I'm thinking 40s style, with more modest coverage than you typically see in modern shorts. Now I haven't sewn pants yet, but shorts are just short pants anyway, right? Why not start there, seeing as it's almost summer? I have been wanting to buy Wearing History's Smooth Sailing pattern for ages for the trousers, but think they'd also be splendid as shorts. I also like the shorts from Lauren's Sailor Girl Playsuit pattern (Casey made a lovely pair that look very versatile). I did buy the vintage pattern below, which has three styles of shorts. I like view 3 the best. I think I may like the pleats in view 1, too, but I would definitely start with view 3. I don't have the pattern in hand yet to know how "Simple to Make" they actually are, and I'm wondering how they would look without a cuff.
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| {source} |
What do you think? And what would be a good fabric selection for shorts? I'm thinking solid colors, and something machine washable. Cotton twill? A linen blend (I'm thinking a blend so they wouldn't wrinkle when I sneeze)? I am still pretty much a dunderhead when it comes to selecting fabric, I admit!
3. I have two sweaters going at the same time on my needles. After finishing up Briar Rose (pictures later today!) and the black sleeveless shell I wore at VLV, I was desperately in need of some knitting that involved a) color and b) something other than stockinette. One is red and a vintage-inspired modern pattern, Henrietta Maria. I'll be reversing the original color scheme and am making a couple of minor alterations to better fit my vintage aesthetic, which mainly involves adding a bit of length to the body and the ribbing and knitting slightly longer sleeves.
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| {source: Cotton Gin & Tonic} |
The other is robin's egg blue, the vintage pattern It Cannot Fail to Please from A Stitch in Time Vol. 1 that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, modified to work in DK weight yarn.
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| © Arbour House Publishing |
Both are distracting me from working on any sewing projects whatsoever. (When I'm busy it's so much easier for me to contemplate sitting down with a knitting project than a sewing project.) I'm knitting both in Cascade Ultra Pima, a DK weight cotton that I have fallen in love with. It's lovely to knit and comes in a great variety of colors, both major pluses in my book. The sweaters will be short-sleeved and should be weather-appropriate for all but the hottest and muggiest days, I'm hoping.
4. While I haven't talked about it, I have not forgotten about my Handmade Vintage Wardrobe Challenge. I just haven't had the time to blog about it or give it much thought! But both of my current sweaters fit into my challenge color palette, as did Briar Rose and the two sewing projects I finished for VLV.
I desperately wanted to participate in Sunni's Ginger Sew-Along and turn Ginger into a pinafore with some navy gabardine in my stash, but I couldn't get it together in time. I hope to tackle that after the wedding, even if my wool-blend gab is less than weather appropriate at that point. By then I should be able to focus more on sewing, too. I have so many ideas in my head that I haven't been able to explore due to lack of time!
5. We went camping in Wisconsin over the long Memorial Day weekend and while we met with some rain on one of the days, we did not wash away in the major storms that hit Illinois and Wisconsin. I'll post pictures of our trip in the next few days, but here's a preview!
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