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 Monday Morning Mirth
something for the June Bridesmaid...
Kinda down because your bride is really UP?! Who loves ya baby? ChicKnits Personal Shopper, that's who...
While wiling away some time on Milwaukee Ave, I spied this unique applianace at Diana's Fashions.
If your bootay is not liscious enough, get one of these and upgrade what Mother Nature left behind...
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I am a creature ruled by the sun. Now that the temperatures have consistently been in the 80's, Agnes has been benched, and my Onde Cardi is just too hot to handle. (WOOT on that arcylic content - love it hate it...)
I am as fickle as a buzzing bee flying from luscious flower to flower...
Ahem. Not quite - the five day forcast says we're back in the 70's by tomorrow, so I can OndeAlong once more without the pesky AC blasting my sinuses to oblivion - I avoid AC until the last possible heat stroked moment.
I LOVE THE HUMIDITY! It is possibly the only time of the year when my head is at maximum operation and all cavity systems are go. I got a nose FULL of Chanel #22 at work the other day, unexpectedly, because I can usually smell at about fifty percent, and it was GLORIOUS!
I myself am a Coco woman and now that Stormtracker says (whoever made up Titles for weather computers that make them sound like PEOPLE will be locked in a miniscule room and forced to listen to the new George Michael CD 'til they drop!) we're in for a big sky roast, I'm in for a new bottle of cologne and am looking forward to spraying myself into a paradise of scent...
Which happens to be the name of the yarn I'm using for the start of the shell you see above.
SPRAY that is...
It is very soft cotton tape by Katia. I did not trust it at first - thought I was going to end up with a pot-holder-like-something-to-wear - then just decided to go for it. This was initially slated for a rather intruiging openwork design. I vetoed it in favor of this current design because of the need to wear something underneath the other shell because it was just TOO OPEN - which would make it summer unfriendly. (I'll save that pattern for some other tasty LIME GREEN sheer tape I have by LANG: Roma - hmm, they say it's ROMANTIC!).
The wardrobe concept is a large one, all over blogland. I just read Theresa's thoughts (June 14th) about how if it can't travel to the office it won't travel on her needles...
I agree! If it can't hit your personal catwalk, be it an office hallway or in my case, the sidewalk, why make it? Why have a closet full of extraordinary knitted garments that see the light of day about once a year...
Although I've been a prolific knitter, I haven't always been a practical knitter or even very sensible knitter. You can go through my galleries and see some really funkified errorific disasters! Where on earth was I planning to wear all this crap?!
So I've started a simple V-neck shell with a trapeze shape that will be comfortable to wear and show off this yarn's goodness to boot. I've alternated wide columns of purl stitches and knit stitches. I think of purl stitches as the Negative Space of Knitting - it's usually on the Wrong Side and most often a counterpoint to thrust forward a knitted pattern like a cable or lace column.
Here it is the focus and becomes the pattern itself...
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Moving at the speed of a sun-stroked tortoise, I've entered the final third phase of my Ribby Shell I. The pattern is written and I just need to finish the samples. (My pesky day job is just squeezing the life out of my knitting calendar - 6 day weeks, 12 hour days, who can knit?! When I was making the Sitcom Chic design, I clocked my time at over 50 hours of labor to design the pattern, write up all the sizes and knit the sample. WHEW! I need some elves...)
The *Teresa* yarn by Vittadini is just luscious! Even the other riders on the #66 agree - it always elicits comments from my busmates pals.
It is so sophisticated, people don't assume I'm making something for a baby - which on the #66 is the usual comment because knitting is so extint in most parts, the only time anyone sees anything handknit is on an infant.
Mais ce n'est aucun chandail de bébé!
Oh no - this is W-O-M-A-N...
I see a nice linen skirt in my future by Friday. Sometimes, I wander up and away from the studios after I punch the clock and find myself on Michigan Ave. (hence the store window shots!) Even with the hundreds and hundreds of tourists that are here for the season, it is fun to mingle and feel the excitement that visitors bring.
So a little skirt must be sought out and matched to this honey. Consolation prize if I draw a zero in the skirt sweepstakes? But of course, linen capris... ++++++++++++++++++++ Some pre-stroll contenders...
1. Linen Blend Top-Stitched Skirt
2. Linen Flounce Skirt
3. Campaigne Masonite Tweed Skirt
4. Crinkle Pleated Skirt
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SUMMERTIME KIP! the BEST!
TONIGHT! 7-9pm Letizia's 2144 W Division
However thought they could start a lace project at 11pm, should be sent to their room immediately for some QUIET TIME...
In an effort to make Wardrobe Reality, I started a little lace poncho this weekend. And re-started, and re-started until my head spun! I tried 5 different stitch patterns, in all. I wrote all of the stitch patterns down (I really liked something called Bead Stitch and will use it in the future...) but forgot to photograph them before I RIPPED 'em OUT! What a pretty little story board that would've made...
First off, I went with some Brilla (Filatura di Crosa) in a very pretty cream. Alas, this yarn is just too shiny for what I had in mind. I was hoping to use a variation of something called Vine Lace but the pattern was just lost in the glare from the rayon wrap of the yarn.
I had expanded the mesh portion of the pattern - in fact, 2 of my first tries were mesh only. I really like the way it looked but all I could think of was how BORRINNNNg...
So then I went on to another type of yarn - this one a deep Stash Revival of an eBay purchase. It is similar to Cotton Classic, but actually a DK instead of worsted weight. It cost all of $12.00 for 1200 yds. - came in a very large unwound skein that has been frightening me for almost two years.
Well, two years ago, I was only working in the mailroom. Today, I'm the CEO! I took that skein and WOUND IT! To the suppliers credit, it was skeined beautifully and did not snag or fuss or pull in the process of ball-making.
And I was rewarded with a wonderful, mercerized, soft, cabled delight-of-a-yarn that doesn't glare in the light because it's too shiny and shows the simple stitch pattern beautifully.
I think this final stitch is perfect. It is inspired by a garment I saw on the #66 bus on Tuesday morning. A very stylish young woman had on a black eyelet lace pullover in a wonderful pattern that looked like little bells seperated by more open mesh stripes.
You've seen them everywhere too - they are simply a looooong rectangle that is sewn after it is folded lengthwise, leaving an opening for the head.
I am going on vacation in August to North Carolina with the fam, and need a nice little shoulder holder to wear over my summer dresses...
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Picasso @Daley Plaza
where one can buy some delicious fruit at the Farmer's Market
or in less than two snaps snap up some salacious peas...
where Picasso's models grab a smoke and some veggies
before the afternoon session...
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MiniRant: although I wholeheartedly love going to the Farmer's Markets around the City, I am chagrined that the *farmers* are selling FLORIDA TOMATOES! And, those *Michigan* strawberries I bought and wanted to eat for my lunch!?
If they were from Michigan, I'm from Costa Rica! You can't fool a girl who grew up with the real thing! Those watery, tasteless blobs were enough to drive me straight to the sugared-cinnamon-pecan booth!
At least here, the Nut Guy (yes, that's what it says on his card...) was making them right in front of you. AS ADVERTISED, people...
all photos Bonne Marie Burns ©2004
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Welcome! to Froggy Knits, new to the KnitBlog Ring, whose Motto: "cause some days you're froggin' more than you're knittin" - could be the Story of MY Life...
A HUGE ShoutOUT to Julie, the mighty BoogaJ, our KnitBlog Mom, who in spite of her very busy life keeps our ring a-rollin' along - thanks Missy Jules and when are we fiber hunting together, soon? We'll be sure to be ONTIME with that Fab SHREK watch of yours!
I've been admiring Sharlene's work for ages now and really enjoy her gallery slide shows...
check 'em out @Mommio...
MAGNIFIQUE, SHARLENE!!!
I especially adore your Tiffany!
I love the name of Elka's blog - the title is *Elka Knits* then in smaller letters *because*...
my sentiments exactly, Elka!
Elka, who is moving soon, may not have to suffer so badly through the packing blues if you help her De-STASH
Heidi & Lynette (hi Monica!!) are working on tanks for Nathania's Tank Along and my Trestle Tank was lonely....
So....join up I did!
Over at tréCool Fiber Fever, I found this cool portrait maker - I am a sucker for these thingies...
HAPPY SUNDAY!!!
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