Blog entries - June 2007

Mystery Stole 3

Shelley — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:28:01 +0100

I have signed up for the Mystery Stole 3 Knit Along which I learned about from the Three Bags Full Shop News . The idea is that everyone who wants to participate signs up (sign up closes July 6th) and every week a clue, in the form of a lace chart, is posted. No one but the designer (and her mother) actually know what the finished project will look like but her other des...

The Pocket

Shelley — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:48:15 +0100

This is my submission to Tie One On . The theme for May and June was “the pocket” and since this apron started with the pocket fabric (and it is certainly the pocket that makes it cute) I decided to submit it.

I had meant to have this ready for my party last weekend (since it goes with my party dress) but I ended up too busy and never got around to i...

The Second Annual Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party

Shelley — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:11:46 +0100

Due to the particularly fine weather (and the fact that we had all our plant pots and a very dirty barbeque in our dinning room because our landlord wanted to paint the balcony) our tea party became a picnic. We packed up a couple of blankets, napkins, sandwiches, cookies and juice and headed down to the park by the lake.

It was a hot day but the breeze off the lake was ...

A New Regency Gown

Shelley — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:55:37 +0100

This is the gown (and under-things though you can’t see them) than I made for myself for this year’s tea party. I’ll put up a post for the under-things as soon as I’m finished the embroidery on my stays; right now they look a little too ‘half finished’ to be shownoff.

The fabric for my gown was ordered from Moda Fabrics and is a...

Sisters

Shelley — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:49:03 +0100

Pattern: My Own “Lacy Squares”Yarn: Lace weight spun from SULIFibres “Autumn” Merino woolYardage: approximately 120mNeedles: 3.00 mm bamboo circular (16”)

Pictured above are my finished Autumn Lace Squares scarf, on the right, and my original Autumn Felt scarf, on the left. I finished my knit scarf at World Wide KIP da...

World Wide Knit in Public Day

Shelley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:00:33 +0100

Saturday was World Wide Knit in Public Day and we did our best to be visible. We met in the coffee shop downtown and knitted (and chatted and ate and drank) for a couple of hours. We got a few curious looks and some inquiries - especiallywhile we were winding up Liette’s skeins with the swift and ball winder.

There were seven of u...

Sneak Peak

Shelley — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:14:04 +0100

I’ve been working on my Regency under-things. It took me ages to get all the materials and then get around to making up the toile for the stays. According to this pattern I’m a whole lot smaller than I thought I was. It took me three tries to get the right size and shape.

It turned out that I didn’t need any gusset...

The Trouble with Secret Projects...

Shelley — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:04:28 +0100

...is that you can’t blog them until they have been delivered to the recipient. Our friend Katy has been living in Alaska for the last year and Liette and I were very excited about her coming back to town. We knew that the dress she wore to last year’s Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party was now too big - due to lots of cycling. We also knew that sh...

Step Two

Shelley — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:19:34 +0100

Here is that lovely Autumn coloured merino again moving into it’s second metamorphosis. After a couple of swatches and iterations I figured out a sort of a lacy squares pattern. The yarn kind of calls for something more organic and leafy but I wantit to be a nice sister to my felt scarf which was woven in large strips. It doesn’t look very big but it should st...