So here’s my awesome planner for the past weeks. Note that I haven’t been tracking things properly. My planner is for tracking my to-dos and my habits: healthy eating, regular exercise, housekeeping, hydration, productivity habits, spiritual habits. I haven’t been tracking. I haven’t been staying on track with those habits. I’ve been making progress on […]
Here’s the Baby’s Easter dress, in linen with a sheer overlay. A very frothy frock. I’m making matching shoes. Same linen, same overlay. Satin ribbons. I have a wide one for a sash for the dress, too. The baby is going to be super cute!
Good performance, good to see #2 son as he drove through from Colorado. He brought me a couple of cakes of Prism from Lambspun. This is the stuff I knitted up into Ketch. This colorway is called "Venus."
In my mind, Project #1 for the Seamwork Design Your Wardrobe Collection was going to be an assembly line marvel creating two 2-piece dresses in mix and match ponte knits over the course of one great weekend in the sewing room. Here's what actually happened. I have other stuff going on this weekend. The baby […]
I did the Seamwork DYW planning and was ready to do Project 1 this weekend. I was going to cut out the two 2-piece dresses tonight, sew up the seams tomorrow, and do the finishing Sunday. But two things happened. First, my weekend got filled up. I'm going to the Botanical Gardens with #1 daughter […]
The Lost Art of Dress has a long section on thrift. I needed a new, smaller wardrobe, and I planned to create it with my large collection of beautiful fabrics and yarns, saving large amounts of money which I could use to pay off the debt I added to my cards when I was traveling […]
Nice day. Sunday school, which I'm leading and enjoying. Lunch with #1 daughter, the Good Ol' Boy and the Baby. The Baby was so happy and excited. She was beaming. I told her the story of Little Sambo and cooked chicken and zucchini. We then had a rainy afternoon and I worked a bit on […]
I finished this HotPatterns Sunshine Top, which actually belongs in the fall collection. And I've done the ribbing for the back of the lilac Ketch. I did this in the bus to and from rehearsals of John Stainer's "Crucifixion." There were other knitters on the bus. One asked whether I was just making up the […]
#2 son came through last night on his way to Colorado for Spring Break. We had Chicken Tetrazzini and good talks about economics and the environment. #1 son and the Little Girl arrived as we finished up, and we played Smash Up. We made an early night of it, since #2 son was leaving at […]
Here is Ketch, an Amy Herzog Custom Fit design, knitted up in Lambspun Prism, colorway Fairy Trumpet Flowers, half merino and half silk. It took a bit less than 2 skeins. I added a panel of lace from a Japanese stitch collection. The buttons are vintage from Etsy. This is Ketch 2.0, I suppose, because […]
