Make It Work

Thanks to a Saturday spent knitting with the Ravelry crowd and a really lopsided, and therefore rather boring, Colts game last night, Sedona has rounded the final turn and is racing down the home stretch.

So, after months of "Knit 1, purl 1, knit 1, slip 1" it is time to kick start my brain, (but it's Monday!!! That's my inner whiner. Some people have inner children. I have an inner whiner.) I have to figure out how to attach the button tab to the front.

First try wasn't satisfactory, as evidenced by this lovely shot of Sedona with her slip slipped stitches showing..

In other news, the folks from Ravelry couldn't have been nicer (unless, of course, they had insisted on buying all the yarn Susan stocks at Mass. Ave. Knits. I guess THAT would have been nicer!) I think I will "adopt" them all.

But not until after Christmas.

My list is long enough already, without adding sixty rabid enthusiastic knitters onto it.

I tried to be good. Honest I did. I mean it's not like I don't have enough on my plate.

But I just couldn't resist the Malabrigo.



Look at it. Ain't it purty????

It's Polar Morn: a pale icy blue-gray with the faintest whiff of lavender.




And this is my lightly blocked test swatch for the new design - Norwegian Woods (after the Beatles, of course.)

She'll be a knee length cardigan jacket with a soft rolled shawl collar. And she'll be February's pin up girl. Have to finish Moroccan Days and my "secret" project first.

And now that I have gotten THAT out of my system, I'm ready to tackle that button band again.

As Tim Gunn would say, "Make it work."

Almost there. I can see the finish line from here...

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