The second pattern I bought at the Attic. I went with blue linen, but they kitted it up for me.
The original linen is cream, the one change I requested was the blue stars, isn’t sure how they’d look on the blue linen, so we went with purple. There is a lot of brown. It is two different shades, but it’s still a lot. I was only given one skien of the darker brown, sure enough, I look at the pattern – it calls for 3 skeins. So I ordered more.
So instead of the alphabet being brown, I pulled out a darker blue from my stash.
The purple looks nice, some of the small elements were also, brown, I’ve switched them to red or navy. I like color.
There are a lot of rabbits
, I get it, for many spring means Easter and rabbits. I don’t mind the two twin rabbits but the others have to go. I want more variety.
The rabbits were edged with a grey thread, wouldn’t show up on the blue, so I switched to a tan. I found this sheep and a goose in an alphabet book. So with a few modifications, I created this sheep. This is the test sample up on a corner of my linen.
And here it is in place of one of the rabbits.
I worked on the handle of the basket. Plenty of frogging and restitching. And yet, it worked! As you can see, the straight brown line of stitching, matched up perfectly. sometime you can fudge things and sometimes you can’t.
I started this top back in March, these days I only knit when I get together with other knitters. I am very please with how this came out. The fit is perfect, and I love the stripes. Very cute simple T-shirt.
This was before I steam blocked it. Not seeing too much of a difference. I think it did smooth out the garment.
Finally, I made limoncell0 from the peels of my Meyer Lemons. Unfortunately the recipe is too sweet.
I am now infusing it with rosemary, I hope that helps.
Leah