Spinnin' Yarns

So I made it a bit short because I was afraid of "growth" and like everyone else, I wish I'd made it slightly smaller...although I didn't short row the front at all and it does fit there pretty well.

The lace is murder on my hands, and the beading... I can't wait to be done.

I was hoping to finish today to wear it this weekend in Vancouver with my moms group, but sadly it didn't happen. Oh well.

The lace on the arm looks a bit higher than on the body; I decided to go ahead and do it even though it looked a teensy bit off, because the beading on the cuff will make it "sink." Even if it doesn't, that's ok... I am so never doing this again... this is all knit on 5's for the stockinette and 3's for the lace and purl ridges, and beading with DPN's on the sleeve (slippery ones) SUCKS BIG TIME HOOEY. So there.

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this is for FIL for his birthday (in April, but I felt he got cheated at xmas). He teaches Shakespeare, so naturally I had to make this for him. Hopefully he'll forgive me for sending a wool and angora scarf to Arizona in March...

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so many beads and so far to go...

I give you...the satanic knitted bodice (nearly to the bottom). I've picked up stitches around the neck and am also working on that, then the sleeves--but I fear running out of beads so I'm off to the store for more (hopefully they have them!)

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Here are some terrible pictures of my blue tunic. Took me over a week. AUGH! Lesson learned, I did three muslins but didn't do the bottom tunic part, just the bodice, and it needed much futzing to make it fit. These pics are before the final futz, so forgive lumpiness and know that in real life, it looks better.

this is the pattern

this shows the embroidery I did on the neckline, cuffs, and bottom

on my not-so-double duct tape double (she's not quite as endowed as I am, and her tummy is way poochier than mine)

the back is gathered in the center... dtd's back isn't really a good approximation either. Rats.

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A felted moebius basket...

I needed something to hold my meds (yes, I have a lot, sigh). So I used Cat Bohrdi's treasury of magical knitting and made this:

Added fringe when done (and a handle for easy carrying up and down the stairs:

went to the laundromat to felt since she recommended stopping it every minute to unhook the fringe from each other (what a pita!) and while waiting, dd and I learned how to use the nifty knitter loom and she made herself a bracelet (sorry no pics yet)

And here it is blocking--she recommended putting balloons in. Fun!

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present for my sister's birthday:

moebius basket (will be felted) for my meds

yorick, for FIL

and my satanic knitted bodice, which I spent some time in the frog pond with this pm... six rows. Sob. Thank god for the lifeline!

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Here it is thus far--I have 3" of lace I need to do, this is about 1" (not counting purl ridges). Lesson learned? Do NOT put your lifeline through your stitch markers. On the next row, it'll pull the lifeline up. And the next. And the next. And lifelines take a while to put in.

sigh.

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