New Beginnings

This is with my Jaeger Trinity batch I got on Ebay - all the way from England - for complete price of like $41 for 2200 yards! It's a discontinued yarn made of mostly silk and cotton. I've started this over many times. One because the pattern is made only in the small size! So first I added a couple repeats and I think it was goin to be too big. Started over and did it with one extra repeat. Looks right to me.

No Fringe Will I Ever Make

This is the one thing I gently requested of my gramma's things (after first inquiring if anyone was using it and being assured that no one wanted it because it was so stinking heavy). My best guess is my gramma crocheted this about 45 years ago. I remember her sitting on the porch with her cotton and hook for what seemed to me to be a lifetime. She was a knitter too. My aunts said she made far too many sweaters for my cousins. I guess she thought because I lived in California that Kelli didn't need any. (We're from Michigan originally.) I figured my aunts forgot that I wanted it, but one day a big box arrived. I threw it through the washer, hung it out to dry, and put it on my bed for many years. When I moved, I put it away as it had a couple holes developing and one very tiny rust stain.

Well, today I dug it out, poorly mended the two holes, soaked and bleached and washed and hung it out to dry again.

Well, it'll work on my queen size even tho it's really made for a double. It sure needs some pretty little Green Gate-ish pillows!

But what the heck does one do to straighten all that fringe!!!

(Funny how I'm dressed like my dad! But there's my crafter-granny right there in the middle)

Update of Green Cables

UPDATE: TADATADATADA Now it's complete. It's on to other things.



Here it is ready for the big finish, block, store till next winter being modeled with today's PJ's in the bathroom mirror. Sleeve bottoms may need to be ripped and redone. We'll see after being blocked.

Green Cables

This is going along pretty well. The I-cord will run through the bottom border (it's a tube border, but flatter than the neck as I just did SS on the back side of the cables there and there are holes the cord can come through on the cables)

So my dilemma is, do I just knit to wrist, do turning row, and hem?? Do I do the bottom border again on the sleeves? Hmmm.

This does fit just fine as is. But it could have been done a lot looser too. I think it's more fitted than I had imagined when I started.

Here's the best of DH's attempt to take a pic

And if only my arms were longer, I could do everything myself . But you get the idea.






Friday night we had pizza here with good friends Gwen & Steve. We had minestrone, Gwen's antipasta salad, Chicago-style pizza, and a mix of Ben & Jerry's ice cream refashioned into some kind of new age spumoni.

Red looks much better on her new owner, Gwen! Notice how the sleeves are longer and looser? She looks smashing! I'm so glad it fit cause ripping a perfectly beautiful Red for salvage materials would have ripped my heart!

Doilies and Aprons

What year is this again? Oh, yeah. Everything old is new again.

This post is mainly for Nona. This is what you do with another damn doily! This was made by "Dead Daph" - a friend of my mother's whose dream was to move to California. She finally did and died within a month!>!.! The doily isn't treated very well as I just throw it in the wash and never block it. But now I'm getting the urge to knit a bigger one to cover the top of the table.

After visiting Greengate I felt compelled to make an apron. Browse their brochure. You'll be sewing too. It's really cuter than this mirror shot. It's just stinking cute. I've worn it all day - baked bread, made meatloaf, macaroni and cheese. I spent the day in the '50s.

(After looking again at my picture of the doily, I realized that one might think a monkey might live here, but no, just two banana-eating adult humans.)