SWAP 2017: Colors
I haven’t made a full SWAP in years and probably won’t accomplish one in 2017, either. But I enjoy planning them and I am taking another PSD today, so I thought I’d plan one just for fun. The new style […]
The Price of a SWAP
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I spent some time reading on the porch, but mostly I’m reading and knitting, with a little sewing. I’m working on the gray jacket. The collar turned out well and the main pieces […]
Whither the SWAP?
HotPatterns has a great post on how they put together their fall capsule. Mine is about halfway done. In the list below, green means finished, orange means in progress, and red means not started yet: Core 4 gray jacket gray […]
Delish Cardigan Progress
I’m working both fronts of the Delish Cardigan at the same time, from two different skeins of the yarn, on one long circular needle. I’m about two inches from the armscye shaping. This pattern has waist shaping in the back […]
Labor Day PSD Wrapup
Okay, I spent the weekend playing games with my family, not sewing, but I still got two pairs of Elle pants completed and three tops up to the handwork. Gray and Dusty Cedar make a very nice SWAP color combination, […]
Labor Day Weekend PSD 1: Elle Pants
How can I have sewn for so many years and made so many successful projects and still be such a bad seamstress? I cut the Style Arc Elle pants in ponte de roma knit in the dark taupe and the […]
Color Grouping 4: Twinset in Dusty Cedar
The next color grouping isn’t a column. It’s a top and jacket or cardigan in the fashion color (not neutral). Nix-Rice calls it a twinset, but in her class she emphasizes that it doesn’t have to be a literal twinset. […]
Color Column 3: Inner Column in Taupe
The top half of the picture shows the dark taupe outer column fabrics, and the lower two are the inner column in Pantone’s Fall 2016 Warm Taupe. I’m planning to make the skirt from Simplicity 1467 and the Sunshine top. […]
Color Column 2: Outer Column in Dark Taupe
The fabric in the upper left corner is a stretch woven in dark taupe, the other shade from my hair. Note that, while I think of my hair as basically gray, color software interprets it as varying shades of taupe, […]