Another Woman’s Trash…

Dsc05439_1 as the saying goes. I bought this euro-kitcshy table and chairs for $80 bucks from a new neighbor….handed down the hand me down we were dining on. I love this table, it’s got the blond Heywood-Wakefield like thing going for it, well, if the legs were not metal I guess…but you get the picture. It all ties into my love for mid-century style and design, my Fiestaware looks at home on this table. I’m in deadline, so I really shouldn’t be posting things on my blog, but oh well. I need coffee.

I finished one of the front pieces of my baby kimono…just one more to go, then the dreaded finishing. I returned the sewing machine I was borrowing, so I may be forcd to sew by hand or just seam it up with yarn in mattress stitch or someting. It’s small, so shouldn’t be too big a deal. I decided to start small on my first article of clothing so I would only screw up on a small scale, though I’m now wondering if it’s too big, babies grow right?

Kimono over here…..

Bagomoneyconverted_1I’ve been interviewing, trying to land a new, super high paying job. Well, I work in publishing so a new, better paying one will do. All the nervousness has made me knit more, which I guess is a plus. I’m knitting a little kimono-style jacket for my firends bay girl, Grace, in a fuscia yarn called TuTu by dea moda. It’s aslo time to start cracking on a shower gift once more. man is it baby season. Weel here’s a photo of th epattern I’m following. I can only hope it turns out as cute.
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Sleep on it….

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I was up until 2 am sewing on his arms and woke up early saturday morning to give him a face and ears before I left for the shower that he was a gift for…whew! I was loosely following a pattern in Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. I was having a hard time wrapping my brain around the use of the circular needles to knit the body from the legs up (or I was too engrossed in “The People VS. Larry Flint”). Either way, I went to bed a bit defeated and when I woke up I put on some coffee and picked up my sticks and knew exactly what to do. I had decided that DPNs made more sense to me…and finished in no time. I used Berroco Plush instead of the yarn called for…it is so soft. Next time I will not increase as many stitches for head IT WAS HUGE!