All purple for Zoe
64-stitch basic
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Dots!
Well, I really don't like those purple zigzags with the rest of the low-volume prints! Oh well, it's done and dusted and donated. quilted with 3s and Es
Beige Stars
Of course they're not stars - They're stripes ! (But there are tiny tiny stars in the border fabric.)
green cable for Rebecca
KnitPicks Hawthorne 64-stitch basic with a single cable on each. That makes them specifically left and right socks
blue black marl for Denise
64 st basic Patons Kroy Socks Last time I sent her socks, I told my sister Denise that I was scraping the bottom of the sock yarn barrel. So she bought me some yarn. So I thought that she deserved the first socks from it.
summer shirts
I bought a little over $200 worth of fabric this spring, and then I made 7 tees, a woven button-up shirt, and two pair of pants, for a complete wardrobe. Here are 6 tees and a woven with starfish from fabric I had bought earlier.
new cabinet
In an attempt to get more organized, I ordered and built a new cabinet on casters: It has a door with a shelf, and five drawers. I put it together totally by myself. The instructions had no words - only very detailed, and excellent pictures. It turns out that I had to take several breaks, lost a lot of sweat, and managed to bruise both my palms.
lavendar gray with speckles
64-st basic In different lights, the base color is either gray or pale lavender
Twister Lolly socks
Twister Lolly pattern - slightly edited, once because I read the pattern wrong, and once because the stitch numbers didn't come out right. final number of stitches - 68 The pattern included a lacy twist to the left. When I did the second sock, I changed it to a lacy twist to the right.
Mustard? Camo? Bees? for Denise
I have no recollection of buying this strange yarn. It has a definite mustard look in the skein, but as I was knitting, I assumed that someone might have thought it looked like camo. At the end, it simply reminds me of bees...
Botany Lace for me
Although these look exactly the same as the ones I recently did for Bev, this one is ever-so-slightly bluer.
ugly yarn, uglier socks
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reach into the very bottom of the sock wool storage, you may come upon a yarn you can't remember buying, which is truly, truly ugly - uglier in the knitted product than it is even in the skein - and then, when you are knitting it up, you may find that a co-worker says she thinks it is pretty. So guess what happens? The ugly yarn gets uglier when it pools differently in the second sock. You knit even faster, so that you won't have to look at the socks any more, and then you place them in a small bag, and give them to her. pale pink, pale blue, pale green, and purple...
socks for family
Knit Picks Hawthorne Speckle - the one for my granddaughter is ever-so-slightly more pink. These 2 photos were taken one after another, on the same chair, in the same location, with my (older) iPhone. The machine auto-adjusts the color somehow. I don't know why. The socks are slightly different. The chair fabric should remain the same. Is the camera trying to make the socks the same color? or Zoe and Lynnette
reclaimed duvet cover
quilts in space Sunday, June 14, 2020 My daughter-in-law asked me to turn this duvet cover into a real quilt: So I did.
biscornu
Riolis kit Am I crazy? Soooo tiny that I do need to use my magnifier. Also, the greens seem too close to the same color while you re stitching. It's only when the section is done that you can actually see the difference,
pink/teal socks for Zoe
This is KnitPicks Hawthorne, which I have used often, and love. However, this color rubs off on my fingers as I knit. I have a pair of socks I made for myself that still to this day continue to leak color when I wash them. I asked Zoe if she was willing to hand wash these - possibly forever. She said she would.
brown batik purse
All batik scraps from a bag I made years ago and brown twill from a pair of jeans Two outside pockets one inside zipper pocket two inside flat pockets Pink Sand Beach Designs London City Bag My previous bag was from a kit - their Tuscany Tote Earlier, I had made two in blue One I gave to an old friend I met teaching at Granby One I gave to my boss at the library, as a leaving gift. The original bag was Pink Sand Beach Tuscany Tote - came in a kit
