sweater for davis
Last night Sarah and I met to do some last-minute finishing of items that are going to the state fair. Forms were due earlier in the month, but actual items are due tomorrow.
Sarah wasn't home yet when I got there, but her husband Jonathan greeted me with pink wine. Then he strapped Truman on his back and went into the kitchen to cook. First he came out with chips and artichoke dip, then sliced avocados sprinkled with rice wine vinegar, salt & pepper. Finally, a ragut with sausage meat and angel hair pasta. He also kept filling my wine glass. What service!
Somewhere in there, Sarah came home from her emergency trip to Jo-ann and we started earnestly crafting. The husbands took one boy each leaving us with just Truman (who likes to eat scissors, it turns out). I fixed up my trellis sweater with some re-seaming, checked over my leaf shawl for a few fixes since it's been worn and washed repeatedly, and then finished the little sweater you see above even though it's not going to the fair. When I left around 11 pm Sarah was working on a gorgeous miniature quilt involving strips of her wedding gown fabric and bits of all the other sewing projects she's done this year. I'd given up on finishing a knitted baby bonnet that is only halfway done.
The little sweater is a wrap sweater mostly done with the pattern from Mason-Dixon Knitting, though I made straight sleeves instead of the several decreases and increases in their pattern. There was something wonky about the way mine were folding up when I did it the way they say to. Oh, the yarn is of course Blue Moon Fiber Arts superwash worsted. It's the Marbles colorway, same as Sebastian's hoodie, but this skein is dyed softer, more muted.
That sounds like fun. Good luck at the fair!
Posted by: Arleta | 2006.08.15 at 07:58
good luck
Posted by: nanna | 2006.08.15 at 08:04
Sigh. I have SERIOUSLY done something wrong in the husband-training department. (My husband brags that he makes a good Chinese Pepper Steak, which he did, once, in our first year of marriage, 16 years ago.) The tiny sweater is darling, love the colorway. Best of luck at the fair!
Posted by: sherry | 2006.08.15 at 15:59
Love that little sweater. :)
Posted by: Michelle | 2006.08.15 at 19:25
Eep! I saw you at Mill End, however I was too frazzled by finding my way there and almost not getting there in time (plus being shy) to say hi. Your stuff looks great!
Posted by: aimee noel | 2006.08.15 at 19:27
haha. aimee, i think i saw you laughing at how i tried to sneak photos of the turned-in project room even though ann told me not to. wasn't i smooth as i pretended to look at that awful jacquard so i could wander by the open room?
i was so tickled to see so many exhibitors that seemed to be "our" age... it was great!
Posted by: sarah gilbert | 2006.08.15 at 23:02
What a sweet little sweater!
Good luck at your fair! I turned in my stuff yesterday. It's being judged today, and I get to see it on Friday! So exciting!
Thanks for hosting the Fair-along!
Posted by: emily | 2006.08.16 at 06:25
Love the surplice baby sweater! How is it tied where the inside flap meets?
Posted by: Cindy D | 2006.08.16 at 10:31
aw! your baby sweater is so cute!! I like yours much better than the pic in mason-dixon. what did you do to make the sleeves straight? did you still start them at the same place or are they narrower?
Posted by: tiffanykapri | 2006.08.17 at 17:41
The baby wrap is lovely, and that yarn is just gorgeous! Thanks again for the hoodie pattern - I have almost finished the first sleeve so I'm on the home stretch.
Posted by: sooz | 2006.08.19 at 21:53