I finally got around to starting on the tilted duster I’ve wanted to make since last.. oh.. September? Yep, instead of finishing my tangled yoke that has been a WIP since last fall, and has tantalizingly little work left (I abandoned it when I was almost to the “fun” part) I started another big project.. but I did start it with the intent of getting it done quickly, since my internet went out sometime last week (Wednesday?) and I knew I’d have some free time to do that

I cast on Friday, after working on a few things for my DD (see below), and I have about 8″ left to knit on the ’skirt’ portion now, which I hope to knock out this week. I have one sleeve seamed up and ready to sew on, and another waiting to be seamed. I went ahead and knit the collar earlier after getting bored with working on the skirt part - ironically almost the exact same knitting, but since there were fewer stitches it was a nice “break” and it went fairly quickly. I made a couple of modifications to the pattern.. obviously I’m doing mine with garter rib, but I’ve also fibbed the number of picked up stitches on both the collar and the skirt. I couldn’t figure out how to pick up as many for the collar as the pattern called for without making the collar too loose - as it is, it’s still fairly loose, and I picked up 12 fewer stitches than I was supposed to. It may fit differently once it has more weight to it with the skirt finished, and the sleeves sewn on.

I adore this color.. I almost wonder if I shouldn’t have gone with something lighter though… I think the texture of the garter rib sort of gets lost

Before I did that though, I made a summerlin top for my DD

I also made a few guaze skirts for my DD.. this is the only one I’ve taken pictures of though. I also made a pink/fuchsia and a black/blue/turquoise one. I have plans to make a couple more… it’s simple and easy clothing for summer around here.

I realize I’ve been a bad blogger and haven’t updated nearly as often as I should have been, but I really haven’t done too much recently.. the kids have kept me fairly busy.