This is not a craft project, but it’s from the archives. What is it about motherhood that makes you wish they could stay the same size, or could go back to being smaller than they are right now?
This is from a little less than two years ago.
Another item for the Friday Archives. I’m pretty sure I made this in North Carolina, so sometime between 1998 and 2000. The exterior is silk or a silk blend that I bought in Japan. I can’t remember who I gave this to–it’s long gone now!
This one is going on two years old. I bought it as a kit (Chad’s Pullover, halfway down the page) from Peace Fleece way back when I first joined a local Stitch-n-Bitch and they were doing a wholesale order. It was a good value, and I find Peace Fleece yarn to be really durable, perfect for someone like Rodney who wears his clothes pretty hard. My only complaints with the yarn are overtwistedness and too much machine oil in it, but I sometimes think those factors might add to the durability (?).
The original design calls for a drop shoulder construction but I don’t find that to be very flattering on a person of Rodney’s shape, so I am going to alter it to a saddle shoulder style. Problem: I realized this after already knitting the first 50 or so million miles of the very tedious double seed stitch for the back, which I’m not going to re-do. Lots of the other saddle shoulder styles out there are knit in the round. So my solution is to knit front and back separately up to the armpit point, sew em up into a tube, and then keep knitting as if it were in the round all along. I hope it works out OK. It’s just a couple of rectangles that should seam up pretty neatly, right?
It’s a goal to have it done by the fall–a more exciting one now that I’ve decided to tweak the pattern. I’m also planning to knit a few pairs of KnitPicks Boot Socks in the near future. I’m not much of a sock knitter, but they look easy and I love the two color style.
For the Friday Archives…
I made this tote bag with French fabric that I had taken with me when I moved to Japan in 1996. The button was scavenged from a tailor shop where I worked briefly, back in Michigan before I became an expat for a while.
My friend T., taking my picture there at Kiyomizu-Dera, totally wanted to steal that bag, but I stood my ground. I still have it, but the inside of the shoulder strap is shredded. I have since made other totes and haven’t bothered to fix that one, but the upholstery fabric is still in pretty good shape.
P.S. For Tom. Remember? FIFTEEN years ago!
Seems like an appropriate thing to do.
Here is my first finished piece of knitting, a scarf for Rodney made of Lamb’s Pride, from way back in 2003.
There is no “home page” for the Friday Archives group, but it started at LoobyLu. I love the little banner!
I am not sure I’ll be able to unearth much that’s older than 2003 craftwise, but we’ll see. I get bored with stuff, plus I like to clean out old things, so maybe I should be more of a Friday Records Management person, with a retention/destruction schedule and all.