I’m currently working on cataloging some of the projects I completed before I joined Ravelry, when there wasn't the division of time between keyboard and needles! I've decided that every time I post a newly completed project or new work-in-progress, I will also catalog a 'Pre-Rav' finished object too, as long as I still have the yarn and pattern specs handy.
Pictured is "Paloma", out of Handknit Skirts from Tricoter. I'm all for having at least a few mindless projects that I can go to. If it's straight stockinette, I can usually catch up on some reading while I knit. Still, the fun of alternating several different yarns at once kept the skirt from becoming too tedious.
Yarns used: All from Blue Moon Fiber Arts- Geisha, Lupe, Silk Mo, and Twisted. All in color: Carbon.
The shaping occurs with needle size changes; beginning at the hem with a US 8 or 5mm, then 7, and ending with a 6 at the waist band--- so the stitch count remains the same from start to finish: another crucial 'knit while doing something else' quality. :) The fringe is also automatically created as yarn/color changes happen— and so the best part: no finishing except adding elastic to the waist, which I skipped.
A relaxing, gratifying piece to knit. I’ve worn this skirt with a tee and flops in warmer weather, and with tights and boots in the cold.
Recession style: I also refurbished an old pair of ballet flats this weekend by resurrecting and re-purposing some of my gi-normous pearl beads from twenty years ago and crocheting the roses from this pattern by Kalurah. I smile at the irony of re-fashioning 80's excess.
And these were my inspiration: $538 (***??!!) Tsumori Chisato's that I'd spied in one of Wicked Pen's polyvores. ;) Lequel est meilleur?
Next in the knit queue are these:
Now if only I could look as cool as Giovanna wearing them:
*sigh* Considering there are few wardrobes like a certain Italian Vogue editor's, and so many more women that like me--- who could never wear over-the-knee boots without looking like complete ho's/tarts, I think I'd best content myself with new fingerless gloves... and old blue jeans.
(Photos: Garance Dore, Scott Schuman)
