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short sleeve baby sweater
Originally uploaded by natashafialkov.

and i have these beatrix potter buttons i have had forever, i didn’t know why i even bought them and now i know why! and they will match wonderfully. this had buttoms at the collar and little ribbed cap sleeves. really adorable. and i lost the entire back to a misread pattern, and still it only has taken me since tuesday. this pic is from a few days ago, i will take new onces to-morrow, i only have one little sleeve left to go. pretty good. i have been dead at work and knitting a lot though, or when i am busy, a few rows at a time. this has been a great learning tool. i love trying new things. i try to be as fearless as i can be and just do it. as nike would say. i got to do short rows for the first time, which are genius!! so cool. i want to do them on everything, for no reason. lots of bilateral decreases, raglan styling, so i got to see how to do the nice neat pattern, that i am told makes seaming easy. that will be the last frontier, not screwing it up at that point. and cottonease is nicer to knit with than i thought it would be. not that it matters, since they do not make it…last call for anyone needing any…my joann’s has some left in the bargain bin for 3 bucks a ball.

my next project will be grumperina’s tivoli t-shirt sweater it comes in multiple sizes, is knitted in the round, is nicely fitted and is not knitted in some laceweight yarn or anything. i don’t know if i could spin 600 yards of yarn. but, maybe that would be a good first thing, first garment for me by me and first thing knit from my very own homespun. i am getting really excited now!! although, it is merino, and that will indeed be too hot. so nevermind what i just said. i need to look in my stash and see if i need to buy anything, or if i can make do, maybe just get some more cottonease, or use that tlc stuff. maybe a really good kelly green? hm…

otherwise, i had an ok day. made some money, and tomorrow looks like it will be busy. sunday is my ad in the local paper, everyone please continue to send out good thoughts for me. we really need to have a bit of a financial boost, and i feel like this may be the start. renew my faith that i am doing the right thing. it is so easy to drift away from that part of my life, i am so jaded, so tired of the scummy clientele, even though we don’t get them so much anymore, all the money owed for all sorts of stuff, and then leaning so heavily on my dear husband who in turn overextends himself and works on saturdays volunarily. not even 12 on fri night. he has been asleep for 2 hours. i want to badly to be able to help pay for things, rather than be what i hate so much in other people, a mooch.

on a happier note, gabe and i started hashing out ideas for the dolls. i want to do small ones to start, he wants to do elaborate ones, and i worry a bit that they will not translate because he won’t listen and will do something that looks really crappy and falls apart. he is not so good at putting things together, he tends to do it a but ass backwards. don’t worry, he doesn’t read blogs. i have this vision, for amazing things we can make, and he starts making it much more complex, to the point of not doable.i dunno.

i ate up all of our few raspberries on the bushes. and strawberry season appears to be over. i need to call the berry farm and get some berries. ooooooh, are they good. yum!!

oh, edit, in my own advice, i tell amy not to use black yarn. i started tivoli in it. don’t do it. and cottonease is for kid clothes only. only. buy nice yarn. sheesh. that is all.