I have nice new handmade garments, but where will I wear them?

This quarantine is wearing on me, as in wearing me down. And I have a large house, a lovely yard and plenty to do. A while ago I made a cute summer dress, then the weather got cold and rainy and I didn’t even want to try it on, I was so cold.

Well, the weather is warming, not enough for my liking, but I can put on the dress and go out and not freeze.

I look forward to wearing this. Hopefully soon, I need sunshine and warmth. Also need this wuflu to be conquered, who knows when that will be. I know the answer is never, it is now here, but in a few years it will be degraded to the level of many other diseases. Thats not to say just the common cold, even the normal flu kills a lot of people every year.

My hairdresser kindly offered to sell me a kit to recolor my roots. I feel awful for her, she can only work in person, there is no work from home on a computer. She and millions of others.

I also finished my New Zealand sweater and I’m very pleased. It came out adorable.

I educated my knitting friends with the term coffin sweater. We had a virtual reality get-together. Zoom is thriving. It worked very well. Anyway, originally this sweater was supposed to have the lace on the back. No way Jose! Since the pattern is on the front and the back is plain – it is a coffin sweater, looks good from the front only. For me, it serves another purpose, I like solid fabric on the back, I don’t want to be cold.

A closer look, finding buttons was a problem. This was before the Kung Flu became the pandemic we know it now is. JoAnns is right down the street from me, but they were supposed to move to a much larger location, luckily still near by. So everything was on sale at the old store, which means that things got picked through. I did stock up on glue for my appliqué, more on that later. And I found these buttons. You know what? They are perfect.

Remember how upset I was with knitting the sleeves top down, I am happy with them now. I do realize that they are tight fitting, I could have used a few more stitches. As in gone one size up, but it’s ok, I’m hoping maybe it will relax some with wear. We shall see, not sure that possum yarn has any give. Actually I’m sure it doesn’t which is why it’s combined with merino.

Look at this!!! The sweater is a perfect match with the dress and I mean perfect. It is exactly the color of the darker leaves on this print, serendipity in action!