Projects, I mean, not sorrows, though there are a great many of those in the world these days. And it is not impossible that this jitteriness is my way of trying to cope with that.
At the top is the Fereghan carpet designed by the amazing Frances Peterson, on 48-count silk gauze wh. I told myself after working a 1:12 cushion at that scale I would never do again and here is a carpet, for heaven's sake. But it will look exceptionally beautiful in my third shop --
which is still not glued together.
(Am having some issues with TypePad, by the way, not displaying images correctly, but I've already held this post up for over a week. If something looks strangely truncated on the right margin, it probably is. Click to view the whole image. [EDITED: I think I've fixed that ...])
Two more sets of stars in English patchwork for that quilt-to-be. It now takes me about 30-35 minutes to sew the six diamonds together, assuming that all goes well (...). I take great pleasure in finding ways to incorporate French General's selvage border into my projects! The brown striped one is a bit rough-hewn compared to the others, but maybe it will work, we'll see.
Finished the "Quaker Samplings III"! Very pleased with this!
The thread color doesn't quite ring true in this photo -- it's Gentle Arts' "Blueberry," which isn't the steely-blue that it looks here, but mostly blue with some purply tinges here and there, like blueberries.
And I had a fancy to knit a little cardigan thing to go over my old choir dress, now that we are wearing "whatever we want as long as it's black, floor-length, and has at least three-quarter sleeves". This would solve that last issue. I'm not even close to the lacy part yet, but I thought I might try a slip-stitch edge on the increase section of the points to go with the bind-off on the decrease part, and so I knitted up a swatch -- this works in theory, but I'm not sure if the second two points, which are knitted with my tweaks, aren't a little too vague-looking compared to the first two.
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