Here I was in the middle of picking up a billion stitches for the edging on the front. Picking up stitches. Ugh. It resulted in a broken bamboo needle, too. The lovely Crystal Palace people said they’d replace it, though, so all is well.
Yes, indoors, thus bad lighting. But here’s the completed front. Not blocked, of course, since I am a lazy creature and I always think I can get away with not blocking until I’ve sewn the whole mess together and realize that blocking would really help. So everything I do is blocked after sewing.
Completed back. There were even more stitches to pick up!
Inside pocket. Quick little thing.
These are the little i-cords for the ties on the front. It didn’t specify a number of stitches, so I just cast on five and it seemed to work well. Sorry the picture’s so blurry. (Do you like my new bedspread? The old turquoise one had a bright pink ink stain)
The side pockets, all sewn on to the strap. Sewn on wrong, of course, and since taken off and sewn on again, but there’s a view of them anyway.
Did you ever get one of those worksheets in first grade or so, a huge list of directions? The kind where the first says "Read this entire sheet" and the last says "Only do number one" and there’s a bunch of crazy stuff in the middle? I was always the kid that worked about halfway down the sheet before I realized that there had to be a trick, looked back at the last direction, and frantically attempted to erase my entire paper while no one noticed. Yep, that was me. And I do the same thing with my knitting. "Sew pockets on with top 2 inches below pins." Sure, I glanced at the pattern. I saw "pockets" and "pins" and sure enough, I ended up with pockets two inches too high.
Does anyone listen to Cat Stevens? Harold and Maude has been my favorite movie for several years (if you haven’t seen it, go buy it now!) and I love the soundtrack he does for it. I’ve been listening to it nonstop lately.
