Girls in White Dresses

My latest finished sewing project.

Not Quite Knee High

I had a bunch of wool sock yarn. Can you guess what I decided to knit with it...? YES..SOCKS! Knee high socks to be exact, for those cold days when your feet are freezing but you don't want to put on shoes, or when you go up to the mountains to play in the snow.
I had two skeins of black (one for each sock) and several random skeins of browns, greens and blue. So I doubled up one of the other colors with a black, to get the random stripes you see below. The black all through gives it that speckled look, instead of clean sharp lines between the colors. This worked until I ran out of black. Then I added about an inch of tan ribbing to the top and called it quits. They come to the widest part of my calf, not quite knee high sock, but close enough.
They are finished but for weaving in the ends, of which I have to many because I didn't think, and joined the colors the wrong way. Oh well.

New Shawl

So this is my new shawl. I wanted something quick and simple to do, I had a ball of cream colored cotton, so I made a shawl. Its just a basic triangle with little flowers around the edge, something I could do with out a pattern. I kept going until I ran out of yarn. It's just big enough to go over my shoulders. Will I ever actually were it? Who knows.


It took my whole arsonal (and then some) of pins to block it. I don't know what I am going to do when it comes time to block my PNW shawl.







Artfully draped over the chest and dresser. Or maybe not...I tried.