Me-Made June

I’m completely tired of taking photos of myself. I’m not tired of wearing clothes made by me–I’m still doing it every day–but I’m not making any promises about photographing the last few outfits worn during Me-Made June. I applaud all of you out there who are still going strong!

Just to demonstrate how bad the situation has grown, I’ll share last-night’s last-minute photograph…taken after I got home from my knitting group, where I had already made a fool of myself by dancing on a chair to show off my latest outfit (my friends made me do it).

Caw! Caw!

That’s right. I’m doing the chicken dance. Good times.

I Finished a Knitting Project!

This shawl was well over a year in the making. It shouldn’t have taken me that long, but hot weather got the better of me last summer. Knitting mohair with sweaty hands is unpleasant.

It’s not this color at all. It’s fuschia. It’s also rather large, and I haven’t blocked it yet. When I do, I’ll be sure to let you know how it measures.

The pattern is Birch by Sharon Miller from Rowan 34. I used fuschia Kid Silk Haze to knit it. Love the yarn. Love the shawl. I think I’ll sew a dress to match.

This deserves a lot of hoopla: I actually finished a sweater. I’m REALLY good at starting them, but finishing is another story.

This is the newest design from Chic Knits. It’s really fun to knit, since the construction is unusual–which makes it interesting–and the lace pattern is easily memorized. I knit this using Cascade 220 Superwash. I haven’t used superwash yarns very often. My lack of experience proved a problem here. When I blocked the sweater, it grew like crazy. I was able to squish the body back into a reasonable size, but the sleeves refused to do my bidding. You can see how much the sweater grew if you look at the shoulder seams. This isn’t meant to be a drop-shouldered cardi. Right. I could have tossed this in the dryer, stabilized the shoulder seams with ribbon, etc., but I didn’t because I didn’t know better.

Next time. Despite the issues I had, I’m still pleased with how it turned out! Kudos to Bonne Marie for another beautiful design!

I meant to be wearing this with a pretty spring skirt or dress, but this was the wrong color blue for what I had in my closet. Hmm…perhaps I should sew something…

Read my notes for this project on Ravelry.

I just finished knitting the Chicknits’ Vonica sweater–and what a lovely design it is. I’m surprised at the sleeve length and am not sure what I think about it. Care to weigh in?

sorry for the terrible cell phone picture…