I am quite the retard sometimes!
I found the Rebecca 29 on my bookshelf & realized that I hadn’t even looked through it since I bought it. If only I had realized that when I was on the prowl for that perfect pattern to start & give me inspiration! Now that I have seriously stocked up on Sierra yarn that went on clearance and it matches gauge perfectly with the majority of patterns in this mag. Sweet! Now I have way more projects that I need and could possibly get through in a realistic time frame. So I decided to go ahead & finish the kyoto I have on needles, the sweater that Thuy and I are making (as well as some other peeps I suppose)and then I thought ‘huh, i bet i could try to get something done before we leave for Disneyland on friday’. So this is what I am going to work on this week (as well as finishing the kyoto to have on the trip, keep reading for changes that I made to the pattern for an easier knit).
The skirt #12 in ggh safari. I don’t have enough of one color to make the whole skirt but I do have enough if I use a multi colored green & brown for the lace bottom with the solid chocolate brown body of the skirt. I cast on the 420 sts last night (gasp)
and got through the first 7 rows to start the lace work. That is where decreases are worked down to 300 sts for the body & then slowly you decrease up to the hips. The yarn is linen & polyamide and it’s interesting to work with. Soft and thin. I have no idea how fast it will go but I will do what I can before leaving.
On the Kyoto I decided that I didn’t want to have to knit & sew all pieces separately. There are the 2 front pieces, 1 back piece, 2 sleeves, the bottom sash and the neck. No thank you! I couldn’t get around the back, fronts & sleeves being separate but I sure as hell can try to do something about the other 2. So last night I got the pieces of the body sewn together & instead of doing the sash separate then sewing it on I just picked up stitches around the bottom of the body & started goin’!! So simple, duh! I will do the same for the neck but I will have to fiddle with it a bit to get it to be perfect. MOre on that once it is done.
Today is MLK day so we are going to just hang out before the kids have to go back to school tomorrow. home=knitting big time!