Amy’s hat and mittens

Looooooooove the mittens! (Even though one thumb starts a row earlier than the other one.)

The hat, not so much. I love the ribbed cable cast on, and the corrugated ribbing, and the overall shape — covers the ears without falling into the eyes. But I think the shaping would be better done with diagonal lines of decreases and increases, so that the stripes would be more concentric and less stacked. This one I shaped with short rows in the back. Do I care enough to do it over? I don’t know yet…

Made with KnitPicks Swish in Wisteria, Dublin, and Lawn — Amy’s choices.

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I have found the pattern I want to try. Ordinarily I would enjoy the challenge of designing exactly what I want, but this one is potentially exactly what I want, or can be tweaked. I love Ravelry for showing what people do with patterns — some of the examples of this pattern are way too pointy in front and on top, but some are just right.

Curtains and pillow covers

A friend hired me to sew some things for her little boy’s room. She went with me to choose the fabric.

Mint stripe flannel curtains. The blackout lining fabric is dry clean only, so I hemmed the linings and buttoned them to the curtains.

Mint minkee (generic) pillow covers, using zippers recycled from bedding bags. These were surprisingly much easier and faster than the curtains. Partly because they are smaller, and partly because there was less figuring to do, and largely because there weren’t forty button holes and forty buttons.

Butterfly

Inspired by various bento box blogs and my friend Audrey. Amy loved it.

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Not bad for only a steak knife!

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On the phone with Grandpa