May 14, 2006

All week long I've been sneaking rows here and there on my teeny buttoned camisole, and I've now got a back piece to show for it. I wish I had more knitting time, because I am having so much darn fun knitting this top! This lace pattern in Tahki Cotton Classic using Inox bamboos is like a box of truffles, let me tell you. You knit one row (or, eat a truffle), and then say to yourself, "I've got to get back to work so this is the last row I'll knit. Promise. I will reach the end of this row and that will be it." But then, like the naughty gourmande that you are, you go ahead and knit another row (or, eat another truffle) while you say to yourself, "Okay, this is DEFINITELY the last row. Just this last row and I'll get to work." Of course, you repeat this until you have about 10 cm on the back of the camisole (or, until you have eaten half the box of truffles). Good thing knitting 10 cm on the back of a camisole won't go straight to your butt and thighs, eh?

On another note, I'd like to introduce you to a part of "Sally":




Sally is a shirt dress project for pattern drafting, and what you see hanging on my mannequin is her unfinished shirt. She's got a muslin collar pinned to her neckline (poor thing!) because I wanted to make sure that the neckband and collar pattern I had constructed for her looked like my flat drawing of the dress. I'm introducing you to Sally - even though she's looking all crazy rumpled with her straggly thread ends hanging down and she's got that wacky looking muslin collar pinned to her neckline - because it's mainly thanks to her (and, I admit, to another project we are working on in fashion design and drawing) that I COULDN'T KNIT ON MY TEENY CAMISOLE ALL LAST WEEK. Bad girl, Sally.

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