BUTTONS!

Soooooooooo today my mother in law came to visit and after getting a yummy lunch, we went shopping! At one of our stops the buttons were all 50% off..... and I found some for my FLS!


What do you think?


A little fancy, not too busy?


I think they are winners! Hooray for buttons!

FLS: Progress!

I haven't taken any pictures or mentioned my progress on my February Lady Sweater! I have been devotedly lugging it to work as my sole project in hopes that when I knit at lunch I'd be forced to work on it. (it works!) Getting through the first part was definitely a challenge, and involved some frustrated frogging, (and cursing) but I am happy to announce I have made it past the yoke and now am doing the lovely lace of the body!!!!!

Front:

Back:


I am happily surprised at how the yarn has turned out. When I first got the skeins, they looked almost perfectly SOLID. With a name like "Kettle-Dyed" I was hoping for some more varigation! However, now that I have a good swath of it knit into fabric, Cynthia and I both agree you can see the lovely striations in the color. Hooray for that!

Another thing I need to work on is finding buttons. I am leaning towards black, but I am keeping my mind open. I might have to head to the craft store and lose myself in the button aisle for awhile!

Anyway hope everyone is having a nice May... it's been a bit rainy for my tastes, but I guess that's spring for ya!

Collaborative sweater?

Anyone else seen this post???

http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2010/05/exquisite-corpse-project-collaborative.html

That is a really really cool idea!!!! I have the urge to gather a group of friends and do something similar, only perhaps a little lower scale, like a scarf!!!! Seems like on a scarf you could get away using different yarn too.... could be really cool... Hmmmmmmm!!!!