November 30, 2004

My fluffy jacket has been in this pile for a week, and I finally decided to get off of my procrastinating bee-hind and start blocking it all, already. This yarn is a big time curler so I'm steam-blocking the dickens out of the pieces - especially the sleeve cuffs which curl insanely upwards - and then placing them [get ready for this] between the mattress and box spring of my bed in order to kill the last of the curl. Yeah. That'll show it.

I'd like to get seaming sometime this weekend but in the meantime, I'll show you one of the sleeve cuffs (pre-blocking) because they are so simple yet clever that failing to show a progress photo of one would be mean of me:




Next up: Knit the pockets and then hunt down thread or yarn for seaming. (There is no way I'm going to seam using this yarn. It's too bumpy and tugging it through edge stitches for seaming would be torturous.) And after seaming we still have all that mad, mad fringe to attach. Send a crochet hook and a kir, stat.

On another note, I cannot believe that we are already at the end of November! The yearly Fête des Lumières in Lyon starts in a week and I want to make some armwarmers or fingerless gloves to wear for extra warmth when I visit the outdoor light shows at night. I've never knit anything like that for myself before, but last week while eating at a restaurant near the Presqu'île I saw a young woman at another table wearing fingerless ribbed mitts/armwarmers that went past her elbow in the style of opera gloves. She was wearing them over a long-sleeved blouse in a matching color. Of course, I immediately wanted to knit a pair for myself. To the needles, Plassard Merinos!

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