It seems like such a blur. This summer has been jam-packed mostly with kid stuff....in fact aside from one ministry outing, it's been ALL kid stuff!! And none of it has been the kind where I can bring along my bag of yarn and feel like I'm accomplishing something. No, it's just drive and drop, drive and drop, drive and drop. I am now thankful for the school year and things have slowed down! All summer my only real knitting time was on Sunday afternoons, sitting in the back yard with Allen. A couple hours at best before the bugs get to be too much. Apparently they like me a lot more than him. I hadn't managed to complete a single thing in weeks. I did start working on the new technique for the Christmas projects then realized 90 degrees and humid in the back yard was not a good combination for wool-type projects so that got put on hold.
The purple anklets are still not finished. Again, no enthusiasm for wool but mainly because even though I followed the directions to the letter, they came out too small. I bound them off but didn't cut the yarn, tried them on and felt like they would slip right off my foot if I put on a shoe. I was just about to hand them off to Sydney when I thought, "maybe if I make a little bit of a leg on them they'd stay on me." So I continued another 1/2 inch of garter stitch. They felt a little less skimpy but way too baggy around the ankle. Maybe a bit of ribbing would help? Another 1/2 inch into that, yes it did help but i'm not sure i like the look of it. So they sat, still unfinished, taking up valuable needle space until last weekend when I pulled it all out to the cuff and put them on waste yarn to free the needles.
There's also a baby blanket of my own design about a third of the way done. It was moving along pretty well even though I was getting a bit bored of the seemingly endless stockinette stitch...but since it's my own design, I have no one to blame! This also may see the winder before long, I've been searching for a more interesting pattern that might actually get finished before mid October.
I do want to show the arm-warmers I made for a sweet young lady at church.
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| Cables on the tops |
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| Lacey hearts on the bottom |
And for a certain relative who's just dying to know what I'm making for Christmas. . .this is all you get Deb ;-)
May God bless your stitches,
nance
