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Finishing Things Up
Apr. 10th, 2014 08:17 pmI finished off my garters on Sunday and my blue bag on Tuesday. (Well, Wednesday, if you count blocking it as part of finishing it.)
The blue bag is smaller than I expected - it is smaller than my hand, reaching from about the base of my palm to halfway up my fingers. I'm still not quite sure what I'll use it for, but it amused me to knit...well, except for the row of eyelets. They were surprisingly hard.
My garters are copied from a pair in the Boston MFA, though I substituted cotton embroidery floss for silk thread since I have cotton scraps from tons of cross-stitching projects and no silk. The ribbons binding the stitching and for the ties are silk, though. I went back and forth a bit on what date to put on them - 1784 or 2014 - and decided in the end to do the date of the originals.
The blue bag is smaller than I expected - it is smaller than my hand, reaching from about the base of my palm to halfway up my fingers. I'm still not quite sure what I'll use it for, but it amused me to knit...well, except for the row of eyelets. They were surprisingly hard.
My garters are copied from a pair in the Boston MFA, though I substituted cotton embroidery floss for silk thread since I have cotton scraps from tons of cross-stitching projects and no silk. The ribbons binding the stitching and for the ties are silk, though. I went back and forth a bit on what date to put on them - 1784 or 2014 - and decided in the end to do the date of the originals.
