My favorite time of the year is nearly upon us. Well, upon me anyway, I don't know about you. I've signed up for some awesome classes at Sewing Weekend in Beaver Dam. Of course I'm going to Nancy's class, and then my second favorite teacher Mary Mulari. It doesn't matter how many times I see these ladies, they always have something new to say.
I also signed up with three people whose names I know but I've not seen them before... Deborah Jones' Letter Perfect Monograms & Lettering (I assume for machine embroiderers), Gail Patrice Yellin's It's All About Embellishment, and Pamela Leggett's Knits and Fits.
My suitcase is in the hall ready for packing and my tickets are in a safe place.
Here's what I've been working on while I'm waiting for Thursday:
This is a scarf, well actually a cowl, that I'm knitting from some of the hand-dyed yarn I picked up a the Loopy Ewe website. It's teal and green with pale blue and some brown tossed in. It probably will go with my gray winter coat but I bought it specifically for the brown color. Once I've knitted the required length, it gets seemed together in a big loop, then folded in half and draped around neck and shoulders. I have brown and teal in my wardrobe a lot so it should go with a few different outfits and match my turquoise bracelets.
Just for fun, I'm making a striped doll sweater for 'Audrey Anne', our American-Girl-From-Target. I usually knit front and back at the same time to make them even and symmetrical, but with two colors sometimes this results in a tangled mess. I'm trying to remember to turn back and forth at the end of each row instead of around and around. Old habits die hard, I'm afraid...
Never being one to be happy with just one project in the works, I recently purchased this book with the idea of maybe making each block once to see if I'd enjoy making the whole quilt. So far all I've done is pour over the book for a couple of days and think about fabric.
Maybe I'll see some I'd like to use while I'm at Sewing Weekend!
Sew on...
