Yes, it deserves two exclamation marks. It's been a while!
These are the 1909 Ladies' Mitts I spoke of a few weeks ago, in the same yarn as the model -- Cascade Heritage Silk -- but in a different color, this one being 5730 Heather Rose. I started the mitts once before, but even with the same yarn as the model, they were far too big, so I've frogged and started again with two less repeats. We'll see how it goes now that I've got to the hand -- but I should look sharp, before it gets too hot ...
(Rather unbelievably, I took this photo with my camera using the manual focus. I can rarely trust my very-poor eyesight well enough to tell if a subject is in focus, but I don't have my contacts in this morning, so was double-checking the display with it about an inch away from my eyes, and didn't do too badly! The photo below is one of the few I managed to rescue from my phone, and the close-ups further down are from the camera. But, yes, the auto-focus is shot.)
I finished the "Zoé Elie" -- the free chart from Reflets de Soie -- and had a go at aging it, to look more like the original d'un certain âge. This is with coffee, Folger's Singles to be exact, which come in bags, and I used both the strongly-brewed coffee and the bags, the latter plopped down at the edge to get a liquid-stain look. It didn't come out quite the way I was hoping, but it was all a bit of an experiment anyway, and I do like the way it looks -- plus it's a charming little piece in itself.
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