I cast off yesterday on the Pretty Thing cowl (by Yarn Harlot) that I started a good year and a half ago. I was so giddy that day – snoozy 3 month old baby in my lap and actual knitting! Stitches and stitches worth!
And I’ve continued to knit in half row and three row increments here and there since then. The last third was finished up in the last month or so – a blazing burst of speed.
It’s not blocked yet, but soon, I’m sure. At least I have photographic evidence that I’m done and that the ends are woven in. I have another ball to work with. Wonder if it’s enough for a hat? If not, prime candidate for wrist warmers.
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Toddler shirts-to-be
I came across this quilt block today, and was smitten.
I don’t need an entire crab quilt, necessarily, but I have a toddler who could certainly use a crab shirt! So I started pulling out fabrics.
You’ll see two shirts in that photo because I got all excited and decided to maybe also make him a plane shirt (since he spends so much of his day pointing out each plane that passes).
It probably would have been smarter to finish one shirt rather than perpetually working in parallel. Oh, well. The fabric is starched and ironed, and now I just need to figure out how to copy the pattern and learn paper piecing… neither should be hard, just takes more than five consecutive minutes. Learning from past mistakes, these are both 3T shirts (not the 2T ones that fit him today) – even though this should be a VERY quick project, I’m sure I can manage to stretch it out for a few months.