Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Slow Road
I'm still waiting for my pattern book to get here from a catalog store in Michigan. I ordered it on Nov. 18th and, aw, come on, it should be here by now! So-o-o, I called the company this morning and they said the package was shipped out via USMail on Nov. 19th. The nice lady suggested that if it doesn't appear today or tomorrow, to call them back on Monday. Gee!!!!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Getting Ready for ????
I've been trying to do about a zillion things at once lately. I finally got all the deck furniture put away and the flower beds around the deck covered for the winter. And I did it before it snowed!
As usual I said I wasn't going to take orders for Christmas this year and ended up with 2 (both for christmas stockings--a total of 4 stockings!) When I looked for the chart to do the stockings I found half of it in the plastic sleeve labeled 'christmas stockings'. I have no idea where the other half is. I even cleaned out my yarn closet (and I mean CLEANED OUT) without it appearing. Oh, well. I got out some graph paper and charted my own designs (a snowman and penguins). I thought they were pretty cute, but my customers wanted Father Christmas. So the Sunday before Thanksgiving (11-19) I ordered a booklet that featured Father Christmas stockings that I found in a catalog. I'm still waiting for it to arrive. I now think I could have driven to Michigan to the catalog store, stayed overnight somewhere along the way, purchased the book and driven home, again staying overnight someplace. I'd be exhausted and broke from buying gas for the car, but I'd have the damn book.
I decided to make a fair isle jumper and cropped vest for the this year's holiday fashion show in Cooperstown . The jumper is high-waisted wtih a simple solid green halter-type top and the bottom is cream with a fair isle pattern worked in green. The vest is cream with the pattern and edges in green. I used silver buttons that mimiced the pattern for both the vest and the shoulder straps of the jumper. It looks good (if I say so myself) and I thought the model (she's 2) can't ruin it waiting to go on. I'm pleased with myself for getting it done with plenty of time to spare--a first for me coz I'm usually sewing on buttons during the ride to Cooperstown that morning! So I'm ready for the fashion show and now the fashion show has been cancelled. Oh, well, I put the outfit in the shop last weekend and it's getting good comments but no one has discovered a real need to buy it. There's still 27 days til Christmas so it may sell.
I think I may be organized enough this year to do some knitting for holiday gift-giving this year. I say that every year, but maybe this year I will actually do some!
As usual I said I wasn't going to take orders for Christmas this year and ended up with 2 (both for christmas stockings--a total of 4 stockings!) When I looked for the chart to do the stockings I found half of it in the plastic sleeve labeled 'christmas stockings'. I have no idea where the other half is. I even cleaned out my yarn closet (and I mean CLEANED OUT) without it appearing. Oh, well. I got out some graph paper and charted my own designs (a snowman and penguins). I thought they were pretty cute, but my customers wanted Father Christmas. So the Sunday before Thanksgiving (11-19) I ordered a booklet that featured Father Christmas stockings that I found in a catalog. I'm still waiting for it to arrive. I now think I could have driven to Michigan to the catalog store, stayed overnight somewhere along the way, purchased the book and driven home, again staying overnight someplace. I'd be exhausted and broke from buying gas for the car, but I'd have the damn book.
I decided to make a fair isle jumper and cropped vest for the this year's holiday fashion show in Cooperstown . The jumper is high-waisted wtih a simple solid green halter-type top and the bottom is cream with a fair isle pattern worked in green. The vest is cream with the pattern and edges in green. I used silver buttons that mimiced the pattern for both the vest and the shoulder straps of the jumper. It looks good (if I say so myself) and I thought the model (she's 2) can't ruin it waiting to go on. I'm pleased with myself for getting it done with plenty of time to spare--a first for me coz I'm usually sewing on buttons during the ride to Cooperstown that morning! So I'm ready for the fashion show and now the fashion show has been cancelled. Oh, well, I put the outfit in the shop last weekend and it's getting good comments but no one has discovered a real need to buy it. There's still 27 days til Christmas so it may sell.
I think I may be organized enough this year to do some knitting for holiday gift-giving this year. I say that every year, but maybe this year I will actually do some!
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