Snow Day!
Posted by Lanea on Monday, January 21st, 2008
I love snow. Kayo loves snow. Scott loves snow. And we never get enough of it in these parts. Finally, we got a few inches on Thursday.
I boogied out of the city just in time to miss the truly torturous aspect of snow in the DC area–the terrible traffic–and settled in to some great fun over a long weekend.
Blanket fun. It’s finished.
And it’s fantastic.
The edge isn’t entirely tamed, but then again, neither am I. I’m fine with it. Still, I’ll show you a well-behaved square. I don’t post photos of friends on bad hair days, so it makes sense to offer the same courtesy to this friend. I’ve spent more than a year working on this blanket, and its made up of scraps from my friends’ knitting and mine. It’s a woolly memory-book.
I still plan to embroider a few of the bland, solid squares, but that’ll be icing on the cake, and it doesn’t need to happen before this takes up a spot on our couch. It’s washed, and quasi-blocked, and toasty on my feet.
In addition to blanket time, I put in some serious bag-making time.
A blue African block print with a gold pinwheel reverse.
A blue floral batik with a pale blue marble reverse covered in tiny spirals.
Probably the prettiest fish print I’ve seen (I’m not one for juvenile fabrics, but the leaf-work on this–yowza–it’s a retro dreamworld, man!) with a fuschia figured reverse.
A green and blue batik, with a lavender and blue script reverse.
A deep blue small-figured batik, with the same script reverse.
And a green mottled sprig print with a mauve nouveau-inspired geometric reverse.
I have a few more cut out and waiting to be sewn up, and more fabric waiting for cutting. I can’t believe I’m still so enamored with these little bags. Maybe I can keep the crush going long enough to save up the proceeds for a loom or a sock knitting machine.
Filed in knitting,sewing | 7 responses so far
Rachel Hon 22 Jan 2008 at 8:26 am 1“The edge isn’t entirely tamed, but then again, neither am I.” may be my new favourite phrase. And is making me think that perhaps I’m somewhat Too tamed, and need to find a way out of that. For several reasons. Cool.
junoon 22 Jan 2008 at 11:52 am 2I LOVE the fish print.
And yeah, what Rachel H said. I love how you know who you are.
laneaon 22 Jan 2008 at 5:28 pm 3I was really proud of that line when I wrote it. And it’s completely accurate–of me and the blanket.
Sometimes untamed is a pain in the ass, of course. But it comes naturally. I recommend mixing too much coffee with far too many opinions, a big mouth, and an occasional visit to too-much-vodka-land.
Lellaon 26 Jan 2008 at 4:04 pm 4nooooooooooooo~ the fish are gone! I’m gonna cry but if you lag you lose.
Grats on finishing the beautiful blanket. It’s really a thing of beauty! Glad you got some snow..
jinannon 26 Jan 2008 at 10:15 pm 5Wahoo! The blanket looks GREAT! What a labor of love!
The bags look fabulous too – I really like the combos of colors and prints that you use.
Rachelon 01 Feb 2008 at 10:49 am 6Weird. I could swear I commented on this post already. Seriously. Losing my mind. I love the blanket, it turned out so beautiful. And please stop showing me bags, please, I can’t take it.
Lisa Boyeron 05 Feb 2008 at 4:51 am 7These are so pretty!