The Dragon Sweater

It was Thanksgiving morning that I woke up feeling sort of icky, and by Thanksgiving afternoon I was wishing for my bed.  As the day wore on, our very warm Thanksgiving (60 degrees) turned into a very windy Thanksgiving and the temperature dropped.  The more the wind blew, the worse my sinuses were, and by night, I was Sick.  Sneezing and fever and coughing and feeling lousy all over.

I made the commitment to stay off the computer and do only what I  had to do on Friday and Saturday, moving from the bed to the couch, napping and feeding my soul.  I had tv and movies to entertain me, knitting to make me feel like I was doing something, and copius amounts of tea and snacks.

Instead of working on my current knitting project, I decided to revisit my dragon sweater.  I had bought this wonderful yarn on a close out, and of course it got added to the stash for a long time, until I found this sweater that had a diagonal stripe... and so I mixed the Dragon yarn with a few others and started out.  I really did not like the pattern, so that got switched to a short row technique that I had learned last year, and created the back and started on the fronts.  It took a bit of trial and error, ripping and reknitting. The first try at the front turned out way too large.  Ripping some more, and more reknitting and now as the week end come to a close, the body of the sweater is done and I've started the sleeves.  The knitting is going quickly on large needles and because I decided to work the stripes on the sleeves straight across instead of on the diaganol, there is very little thinking that I have to do. 

I won't have this done this week end, and during the week I work only on commitments, but maybe by next week end I could have this one marked off and something else ready to go in my knitting basket.

My hands don't like knitting for hours as much as my mind does, and my cold is far from over, but the worst of it seems to be gone and I think I might be ready to face Monday and back to work.  I do hope so, because my to-do list is getting longer and the weeks before Christmas are short. 

CREATE BECAUSE IT HEALS THE SOUL!

Finishing is NOT over rated

I had been feeling like I haven't gotten very much done with my sewing since I got home, but I have to think about what I have gotten done..... My Wee Witches is finished and on my Etsy site....

My fall colors runner is also finished and listed.  Yea me!

And I've been working on a baby set for a customer.  She brought me all the fabric, ordered from a site called BabyBedding.com (I think, I might have to look that up).  The striped fabric was rather heavy and I don't think that I would have picked it, but it did make up well.  The bumper pads are navy and white; strips on one side and dots on the other, with the green ties on the ends.

The quilt tested my skills as well as my stash.  I made the piping from the striped fabric, finding some old piping that I had in my stash.  I was able to pull the pink of questionable taste from the old piping, using the cording for the quilt.  Nice job!  The quilt is double stuffed, so it is really heavy.  My customer said "It is more for show..."  Can you imagine?

The sheet for the crib is the solid green, so I used that same color for the top of the bed skirt, and added it to the bottom of the skirt.  I interfaced the green so that the navy stripe didn't show through.  I really like this set. 
But for me.... I think I would need something brighter and more fun. 



CREATIVE MINDS ARE RARELY TIDY