The color, not the duck.
My middle name, for those of you not in the know, is Teal; as I say, it is after the duck (my dad was/is a duck hunter), not the color. But for right now, it's all about the color, not the duck.
Exhibit 1: Hemp Flowers Necklace (designed by Norah Gaughan) from last fall's Interweave Knits Crochet.
Exhibit 2: The shirt I'm wearing with said necklace, just one of many shirts of this color that I have bought recently, and tend to wear all at once.
Exhibit 3: The dress I want to get married in, even though Bobby says I'll look fat and much prefers this one, which is still very pretty, but still $200, and I am cheap (and, therefore, if any of y'all know where I can get similar patterns and/or fabric, please help a girl out).
As proven by the above, I really like teal.
The weekend's work
This weekend I finished aforementioned hemp necklace. It was a very quick project, started last Sunday. I crocheted almost all of the flower motifs in one evening, and the band - which is a little loose, unfortunately - in another one. I sewed everything together in about 45 minutes, after a nice blocking.
I also swatched for (! - but don't get too excited; it's not like I washed the swatch or anything) and re-started the Lucky Clover Cardigan, this time with smaller needles and a smaller size.
And, finally, I finished ripping out the Take Me Along Cardigan, which was a big mess of FRUMP. Too baggy and shapeless, and just not quite long enough to boot. Plus, the armscyes were always an annoyance. I would like to give Bella Paquita a whirl. The Jo Sharp Silkroad DK Tweed may not have the right properties to make this work, but we'll see. I'd like to make something a little sexy with this, in order to make up for all the frump it had to create earlier.
Lots of skeins got a bath this weekend: Lincoln lamb/silk handspun, six skeins of ripped-out Jo Sharp Silkroad DK Tweed, my latest handspun (handpainted merino), what was a way-too-large back of a Lucky Clover Cardigan, and my former Clapotis, a victim of not-enough-yarn. The latter may turn into a circular shrug or maybe a Scarf Style turtleneck shrug. It's gorgeous wool/silk yarn that I certainly won't let go to waste.
Honeymoonin'
So, we figured out that going to GenCon/Indianapolis on top of Chicago would be a bit cost prohibitive (that is, about $700 for two days, factoring in transportation, lodging, and convention tickets). Instead, we're going to spend 6 days/5 nights in the Windy City. I've only ever seen the inside of the Amtrak station, and Matthew's spent some time there (though nothing he enjoyed), so it should be interesting. We're staying at a very swank hotel, and will spend a bit of time at Stitches. I know some of you will be there, and I think we should make darn well sure we get together.
Tipper @ 7:50 PM * link
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