Daily Archives: March 30, 2009

What a great idea I had

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hannahs dress What a great idea I had

And even better is the fact that MOM was the one to execute my great idea.  I am NOT a seamstress.  I can sew, but I cannot sew clothing.  Well, it’s probably better to say that I choose not to sew clothing.  I would guess that with practice, I could do a creditable job, but why would I when Mom is so much better than I at fiddly stuff like zippers and bias bound armholes and hems…

And what a cute job she did, too.  When the skirt fabric came into the shop I just knew it needed to be a dress for my 14-month old niece.  That tiny rickrack was my idea, too.   Aren’t I clever?

Hey Deb, it’ll be in TOMORROW”S mail.  Pinky swear promise.  Matt’s socks will be in the package, too.

Necessity

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dsc09971 Necessity

I can never seem to find my little container of binding clips.  Technically, the ones I own came from the hair products aisle at my local big box store (Have you ever noticed that if a company markets something non-quilty as being a “quilt” product, the price magically increases???)

I can never remember to buy more, either, so I usually can find about 2 and I just leapfrog them along the binding as I work on hand-sewing a quilt binding.

The boys’ quilts needed to have their bindings finished last week, and I couldn’t even find a SINGLE binding clip, so I started thinking.  I wasn’t going to use pins, because that’s just a recipe for disaster (and besides, if I bled on the quilt I didn’t have time to wash it).

I wondered what would happen if I tried using bobby pins, and I knew I could find a bazillion of those.

Worked like a charm.

Rebooting a project

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dsc09992 Rebooting a project

Way back in October, I started making a sock using this scrump-dilly-icious sock yarn.  Over the course of many months, I even got as far as turning the heel and starting the foot.  I even posted pictures of the sock in progress.  Said sock was also the source of Dramatic Exit post

After I got the heel turned I decided to try it on.  Slipped te stitches onto some waste yarn and pulled it over my big honkin size 11 feet.

Many bad words were said and the sock was set aside.

See, I hadn’t made it BIG enough.  It was sort of big enough, but not really.  I could get it on, but it was just too snug.

I rilly rilly rilly want to WEAR a pair of socks made from this yarn, and I was afraid that if I continued on the path of not-big-enough, I’d never actually wear the damn things, and I was NOT going to give these socks away to anyone else.

So I let it sit.

And sit.

And finally, I did what I had to do.  I ripped it out.  Hours and hours of knitting, gone in minutes.  Unraveling knitting is actually quite satisfying in a weird way.  Complete opposite of say, frogging machine quilting.  Hunh.  Hours of knitting gone in minutes, Minutes of quilting, gone only after hours and hours of frogging.

Ironically, I’m finding that this sock is going faster than the previous non-sock ever went.  I think there are several reasons, one, I’m a better knitter and two, I fixed a technical issue I had with the WAY I knit, and now my tension is looser, which makes it easier to slide the stitches.

Also, the fact that I sat at the computer and watched not one but TWO episodes of Grey’s Anatomy last night whilst knitting away might have something to do with the progress being made as well.

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