Zack, the little jacket for Elaine, is coming right along. The original pattern calls for drop shoulders and enormous sleeves, but I have decided to raglanize the thing. I am being very fancy-pants as well, and making a 4-stitch cable up the raglan line.
I notice that I haven't added anything finished lately to my list of 52 things for 52 weeks, so I really want to get this done. Besides, I have a million billion things I want to get on with. Not a very restful, stress-free attitude, is it? Ah well.
And this is why I haven't been complaining about the weather lately! We have had lovely late-summer weather, no rain, and clear skies for the most part. If you click the photo you might be able to spot a wee bit of red towards the right side, but our leaves have not really started to turn, except for a few here and there. I usually walk past this view several times a week, so maybe I can show you how things progress.
Then there's the slides project I mentioned!
This glamour-puss is my mom, about 45 years ago, with her leather purse she made, and Heinrich, our beloved VW bus!
I am finding the enormity of this project is a bit overwhelming. Our scanner does one slide at a time, but can make good copies. I had visions of things going a bit faster... There are a lot of pictures of views, places my dad went to conferences, pretty flowers, which I'm not that interested in, but when we hit upon "Family 1962-67," well, that was great fun! For example, here's me and my brother in 1965 by the farm we lived on near Chipping Campden.
What fun, but what an undertaking! It's on my 'someday'
ReplyDeletelist of things to do.