We Needed Time Apart

OK, I admit it, the blouse is kicking my a**. It has 2 pages of instructions aside from being a silky-slidy material that I must have been out of my mind to select. Today it has driven me to the lowest depths......

I cleaned.

Not just any cleaning even--bathroom cleaning. Now there are some bad projects, but when you would honestly prefer to scrub toilets than work on the project, that's a whole new level of "bad."

Battered and beaten by a yard and a half of polyester, I needed stockinette stitch, so I dug out this
which I'm not sure has even been granted photo space on the blog before. It's a chemo cap made from Elann Esprit, which I started at least two years ago. The yarn is elastic & stretchy and a nightmare to work with until I sort of got the hang of it. It's based on Elizabeth Zimmermann's Pi Shawl, and I'm just a few rows short of the sides. When the stretchiness of the yarn got to me, I switched to Fleur, and have started sewing on the beaded edging:
while the cats waged a rather strange battle over the fleece:At this rate I might never get my fleece jacket....

Comments

RobinH said…
Ah. I think when you used the fleece as a diversion, you may have lost it forever!

And Fleur seems to be drawing nearer to FO-dom!
October 27, 2008 at 8:40 AM
Daniele said…
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October 27, 2008 at 11:23 AM
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October 27, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Daniele said…
OMG! I'm messing up your comments. Please don't punish me!

One more time: I hope the blouse comes around for you, it is a bad thing to throw silk away - in any form! ;)
October 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM
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