Posted in finished objects, for baby, tagged baby, blocking, cathay, debbie bliss, knitting, matinee coat, sweater on April 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The shower was today… and the sweater was the first gift opened!! I swear I had nothing to do with the arrangement of the packages, I swear! It just happened to be sitting right in front of L when it was time to open the packages.
I think they liked it Although they didn’t know [...]
Posted in for baby, in progress, set-up, tagged bad pattern, blocking, debbie bliss, matinee coat, schematics, wet steam on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, it was a choice between finishing up the laundry and finishing up the sweater…
I chose to add a new post.
Last night I attempted to block for the first time. I finished up all the pieces of the matinee coat, and as I said on a previous post, it is the first project [...]
Posted in in progress, purchases, tagged debbie bliss, Lantern Moon, matinee coat, Pattern Problems, Woven Bag on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m making excellent progress on the matinee coat… I think I’ll be done with the sleeves later this afternoon since I only have two more inches to go. I’m not really happy with the sizing at the moment–the sleeves seem entirely too wide–we’ll see how it looks when it at comes together. I really wish [...]
Posted in for baby, in progress on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, I think I will be done with the matinee coat in time for the shower this Saturday… woo-hoo!! The problem right now is maintaining focus until I get all the pieces knit up as I’m just itching to get outside and dig my hands in the dirt. Last march we bought a new house, [...]
Posted in for baby, tagged matinee coat, debbie bliss, cathay, autumn house farms, shantung, baby knit on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
… a young woman,
err,
a young-ish woman, began a blog, having visions of vast amounts of spare time and devoted readers. Then one day as she sat typing up her latest entry, she realized it had been a while since she had seen her children. Or her husband. In fact, it had been quite some time [...]
