Looking it all up

With the news that I’ll be starting my new job soon, I decided I needed to finish all those craft projects I had on the go. So, on Friday I went to The Sewing Box and bought some buttons for the Fairly Easy Fair Isle cardi. It’s miles away and it ended up taking me 10 times as long to travel there and back as I actually spent in the shop. But it’s a little treasure trove – they sell everything you’d expect of a decent haberdashery, and it’s all crammed in. They even sold 7mm double pointed needles, which was very tempting (I’d like to make one of my cousins some thick socks to go snowboarding in) but I decided against.

Anyway, I’ve sewn one of the buttons on and it makes the cardigan seem quite girly (the buttons are pink china/plaster roses) but it was going that way anyway, with the pastel colours. Today I also finished off the Lucky wrap. I am not happy with the way it falls off my shoulders, but I think I can resew the edging on and tighten it up a bit. I also finished the skirt I’ve been fretting about for weeks. Well, to be frank, I also only really just started it, the fretting involving nothing more than cutting out the material and then leaving it on the floor for three weeks. My first zip ! I could do it a lot better next time, and I used the wrong stitch to put the ribbon trimming on, but it’s a learning process. I might wear it tomorrow for my driving lesson. That way, it’ll be like dipping my toe into the water – I’m wearing it ‘out’ but not so that everyone can see it. I might even be brave enough to wear it to pick up the Young Chap from the station.

So, that’s all my nearly-finished pro…no, damnit, it isn’t. Have just remembered, I have a grey tank top I’ve been meaning to finish off for months.

It looks awful on me, so I haven’t been inspired to finish it, but it’s going to make a fabulous present for someone (or hey, I could lose weight and reduce the size of my chest by, ooh, eight inches). Oh, and there’s my stripy socks and the Gigi jumper… it never ends. Oh well, I’ll need something to do on my commute to work, I suppose.

ETA : that’s obviously not me in the photo, I just wanted to show how good the tank top is supposed to look. Mine looks very similar, as I used a grey tweedy wool for it.