I made this dress for my new great-niece. It's probably hard to see the pattern but there is a picot edging along the bottom, neck and armhole openings. It was all worked in a cotton blend. The bottom of the dress has a tulip pattern and the body of the dress is eyelet. It was fairly easy except I had a problem about 2 inches from the top. There was a row of eyelet that was completely off from the rest of the pattern! I don't know what happened-I followed the pattern, but I had the problem on the front and back. Of course, I noticed it 4 days before I needed it for the shower on April 15th. I only frogged the front panel but I still worked down to the wire. I was up until 1:15 a.m. Saturday night, then got back up at 6 a.m. to finish. I had bought 2 sun dresses-as backup!-and wrapped everything, made up a gift basket, bows, got dressed and was ready to leave for the shower at 11:15 Sunday morning. I work well under pressure!
I joined a scrap sock KAL and made these from 4 different yarns. They are all superwash wools. I think the pattern worked out pretty good even though I wasn't too sure I was going to like them when I first picked out
my yarn. Since I have knit about 36+ pairs over the past 2 years, I do have a lot of orphan yarn to use up so I'll pobabkly makje a few more pair.
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Hey Patty! It was so good to read your comment on my blog this evening. I've been thinking about you lately, but hadn't got around to emailing you. Wow, you have a blog now...cool!
You are right, I have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew. I don't know it it's oldest child syndrome or what, but the more I'd like to accomplish, the less I get done. Go figure.
Like your closet incident, I've found that it takes a crisis to effect change. I've made up a schedule (I'm such a dork!), and am going to try very hard to stick with it while remaining flexible.
I'm also destashing a lot of sock yarn. Email me if you're interested. I've decided I won't be losing sock yarn, I'll be gaining space and peace of mind.
I have 'finish a WIP' on my calender for today so I'd better get to work. BTW your dress is adorable and love the socks!
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