Sea Anemone Knits

I could tell you about my progress on the Swallowtail Part Deux, but really, there’s no point in showing you photos of the shawl looking the same as it did a few days ago. It’s grown. I’m not saying it hasn’t. I’ve got one row left before I start the three edge charts and then it’s time to block it! and block it good! (sorry, got a little carried away there!)

Saturday found me making a quick trip over to High Fashion Fabrics with Meredith where I picked up a dress pattern and some contrast fabric for the loteria fabric I picked up last week. I also stumbled across this fabric which I’m fighting the urge to go back and get!

I bought this pattern:

I bought the pattern so I could sew the green dress pictured there. I’ve done a little digging around the internets and found a website that has a very pretty merlot colored jersey fabric that I want to use for it. Their fabric is like half the price of jersey that I’ve fondled seen at fabric stores here in town. So I may be placing an order with them sometime soon. If I do, I’m thinking about also buying a dress amount of the jersey in a nice grey color that I saw as well. I do want to change the straps though. I’m going to eliminate those pesky bowtie straps and make the straps slightly wider and of the variety that do not tie. Now to get over my fear of zippers…

Tonight, I got up close and personal with my sewing machine again for the second time in the last couple of weeks.

It’s not tall enough to hold straight needles, but it’ll hold a coupld of circulars and some sets of both short and long dpns. I wish I’d had some interfacing to make it feel a little sturdier, but really, this is one of the better sewing jobs I’ve done. I even pressed the fabric as I went to keep it all nice and neat. Going out on a limb here, but I say that the pressing as you go thing was an insanely brilliant not a bad idea.

I also finished my Gardenia Leaves footies a few weeks ago. The bind-off is a bit snug, but really, since I don’t get to wear socks really anywhere but at home and on the weekends, I’m ok with the snug bind off. I won’t have to tug the socks up! I got the yarn from The Fiber Denn. I’ve bought yarn from her before and I’ve always been impressed with the lovely softness of the yarn as well as the freakin COLORS. Hello perfect fat stripes much?? Currently until the 15th of May, she’ll donate a hefty portion of the proceeds from the sale of certain of her yarns to her local pug rescue and I think that that is pretty cool. You can check out better details here.

I’m just way too glad to have them done. The plain stockinette sucked my soul was a little bit boring.