May 22, 2006

Finished fronts of a Teeny Camisole, that is. Check iiiiiiiiiiiiiit:




These fronts were knit while riding in the car with Monsieur Le Hubby. Viva car knitting! (On the days I take the bus and metro I pull out a book. I like giving my hobbies their fair share of my time. I just finished re-reading Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress - this time in English - and I'm currently reading The Broker by John Grisham. Viva bus reading!)

Up next: Seaming, and then crocheting borders and buttonholes. And I have no excuse to dawdle over those little tasks because I already bought some buttons on Saturday. They're tinted red and have flecks of pink in the center, but they're translucent so they take on the color of the yarn when placed against the camisole. Oh, how fancy!

Now that I've got a finished project on the horizon I'm already thinking about what I'd like to put on the needles next. Something along the lines of this should give you an idea of what I want to knit:




For my stylisme course (fashion design and illustration) we keep designer sketchbooks where we're encouraged to shoot off sketches whenever we get an idea or see something that inspires us. These books aren't graded, so most of the sketches in them are pretty rough (like the one above) because they're supposed to be spontaneous; we do the fancy drawing and color rendering for projects we turn in. I admit that even though I'm an avid knitter most of my spontaneous design ideas tend to NOT be hand-knitwear [gasp!], but every once in a while I get an idea for something I'd like to knit for myself. When that happens I sketch that idea on a bit of paper and then I stick it in my design sketchbook for later reference. My current knitting urge: Something sporty. Something stripey. Preferably, stripey of the RED and WHITE variety. Yep...I think it's time I swatched that GGH Bali.

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