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Knitting Yet Another Sweater...

7/29/2013

 
I'm working on a sweater set for Peach, and I've been having lots of issues. First it was deciding which colour to choose as the "main" edging, as there were two very dark colours.  I ended up choosing the dark green. Then the  colour bands in the variegation were too wide for my taste so I had to unravel most of the first sleeve and tie off sections of yarn so the coloured stripes would be narrower - then repeat that in the second sleeve. The main body of the sweater needed to be unravelled because I messed up on the third row and couldn't see the detail in the very dark green in order to fix it - so I unravelled everything and started over.
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I have a lot of leftover light turquoise thread because each time I started knitting a new piece, I had to unravel the ball of yarn to get to the dark green again. But now that I'm on the main body, I won't have to unravel anymore - until I'm at the end and need to use dark green for crocheting the front openings and neckline.  And again when I start the hat.

This week I'm hoping to finish off a lot of loose ends. Everyone is back in their Newfoundland travel clothes so I can take photos and make Gallery pages. Peach needs her Victorian outfit photographed too. I'm also planning to take all the final photos from last spring's story. There's not a lot left - mostly close-ups and an interior scene or two. Then Aeran and Asa can finally go away to be repainted.

I also need to shoot the last few art dolls that I want to try sell, and make all the pages for each one. Then that section can finally go up on my website. I still haven't decided what to do about the felt and cloth dolls - to keep them or try sell them.

I'm not sure how much I'll get done, everything seems to go so slowly these days. I'd really like to get back to costuming again in August. At some point my two little Manuna Mice will arrive, and I plan on pairing them up with my Kaye Wiggs tinies. The Mice were supposed to be shipped in July - this month (which is almost over) - but everything through JPopDolls always takes way longer than they say. Last year the two dolls I got through them, each took an extra three months past expected delivery dates.  

Cinnamon used to hang out with the Iplehouse girls, but now she's friends with Tillie, and since both girls are actually little elves, I want to make them some nice little fairy outfits so they can have adventures with the mice. I was thinking that painted silk might work beautifully for that, which means I finally need to experiment with the silk-painting supplies I bought three whole summers ago.
designdreamer
7/25/2022 10:12:31 pm

You are just too amazing in that you seem to know how to do EVERYTHING!!! I myself, can sew, knit, smock, do SOME embroidery (smocking IS a type of embroidery after all) and have recently been researching paper mache (which is pretty closely related to sculpting with paper clay - as far as I can tell) I WILL say that I'm not too bad at "French Hand Sewing (a Martha Pullen term if you're familiar with her) and smocking to a lesser degree, and knitting is something that I have familiarize myself with from time to time because I don't do it on a regular basis. I've always WANTED to learn how to crochet, but haven't so far - I think I'm running out of time on that one. From what I've deduced from your blog posts, I'm a year younger than you, and have arthritis in my hands, and my eyesight isn't getting any better, sigh. But you DO so inspire me. I REALLY want to make a fairy costume.

Martha
7/26/2022 12:02:17 pm

Thanks. I can do a lot, but I can't sculpt beautiful realistic faces. Maybe I just needed to practice more. But then, I'm not really a fan of sculpting. And nowadays with such beautiful realistic dolls available, who needs to?

As of 2022 I'm 67 with a boatload of worsening, health issues. My dolls are my much-needed distraction.


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