And now for something sort of ridiculous, but what else was I going to do with 300 yards of organic cotton? I bought it in Fairhope at the Yarn Cottage, and it was back in the baby room with precious pastel yarns with which to make baby gifts. But I wanted cotton for mySELF, so I thought I'd give it a try, even though the skeins were tiny (100 yards each). Too hot for a cap or scarf, so Ravelry suggested I make this:
Of course I wanted it longer, but they didn't have any more yarn in that color. I'd REALLY like it to be long-sleeved, too.
One lady on Ravelry fastened hers with a shawl pin and it looked nice. You can also see that I forgot to knit the last 3 stitches on some of my purl rows - see the center front border is missing some ridges here and there - DOH! (Looks like a great place to fasten a shawl pin!)
My favorite part is the raglan seam that I didn't screw up - woohoo! Plus I love that it's knit from the top down, so there NO SEAMING at all - miraculous!
Up next, I have a darker green cotton with several hundred yards, so I could actually make something that doesn't look like it's for a todder, as Dean suggested. Yeah, Lucas actually wanted to try this one on to see if it fit him...
OH - I almost forgot a funny story. What can throw off the grand-opening week of your new medical practice faster than anything? Jury Duty! Do you know I don't think I've EVER been summoned for jury duty, but I got a notice for that week. Luckily, I called their office and they're postponing me till late October - thank ya' kindly! My mother is a frequent flyer at the courthouse....uh, I mean she gets summoned for jury duty a lot...and my dad actually got sequestered for a murder trial one time. He LOVED it!
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I love the shrug -- wow! You are fast. I'm still finishing my cardigan. WRT Jury Duty -- good for the postponement. I was actually called in and never got empaneled but watched while four other attorneys did -- the judge was finally, like, to the young DA and Defense Attorney -- Really? Really? Strike them and get it over with!
Laurie's judge had a jury trial involving a large national insurance company last week. She had to scrounge all the jury pools in the city to find enough people for them to seat a jury. Folks were dropping like flies because they had XX insurance. She was not a happy camper that day.
I've been called several times but never been seated. They don't like to mess with engineers either....
Robbie
Funny stories! I actually would like to see what the jury thing is all about, but hopefully the timing will be better next time around...
Love the shrugs! You are so talented! I'm crazy about both of them, but I really love the green sleeveless one. That is probably because it is such a terrible color on me and I am jealous of you that you can pull it off so well. I rarely get to wear greens.
I can't believe green is bad on you - you're blonde! I've got another one in the works like the one I took to Japan and left with Dean's aunt, but this one is dark blue...maybe I should go work on pants instead....
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