Not Quite Done

[atherleisure]

I was forgetting that after the ornaments are glued together, I still need to sew the cording around the edges. I glued things yesterday so I'll try to get the cording on tonight. At least the delays on the ornaments got me to work on my "Street Scene" cross-stitch a bit more?

I finished the knitting on the 1902 vest so I'm very excited about that. Now I have to do the crocheted edgings. I'm not very excited about that. I suspect this will end up being one of those projects where I set myself a daily quota. I guess I'll do a row or two and then decide what that quota should be.

In the meantime, I needed a new blind knitting project so I started a 1949 swimsuit that I bought yarn for this summer. No, I don't need another swimsuit, but they're so cute. It's borderline on being good for blind knitting since it's done with two colors. The pattern is pretty simple so I think it will be okay. It should be faster than the last one since it doesn't have a skirt. Then this morning Pinterest suggested an image of a German skating cap knitting pattern from 1908. There's a DFWCG ice skating outing in January for which I'm planning to wear a sweater knit from a pattern published in 1907 and 1908. That would truly be blind knitting (it's a horizontal rib rectangle gathered up with a pom-pom). I think I might use up some of my leftover worsted weight wool on that.

Comments

[marianme]

At this rate, maybe in a few years you will have enough for a swimsuit calendar for your husband. An excuse to go in vacations for good photo shoot opportunities?

[atherleisure]

I feel like he wouldn't really appreciate a swimsuit calendar full of 1920's-1950's bathing suits...

[marianme]

What?! haha Maybe could do a calendar sooner if you had other vintage bathing suit knitter/crocheters in there. Ravelry should do calendars, right? Or, definitely, other costumers would be interested even those of us that don't knit well.

[hharris]

haha! Swimsuit calendar of costumers is a really funny idea. Victorian through 50s?

[atherleisure]

I'm not sure one from each decade would really work since you'd have to do 1840's through 1950's, but a dozen from say the 1870's through the 1950's would only require duplicate decades. Wearing History has a 1922 suit that's not knit but is wildly different from the 1921 suits koshka_the_cat and I made.

[mala_14]

Ah, seems like there's always one of those extra steps just when you think you're finished. That happens to me a lot. Yay for finishing the knitting stage of the vest! The swimsuits really are cute. You just need more poolside occasions to wear them.