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August 29, 2004

T3-Free

After hiding it in the bottom of my knitting bag for over a week, I bravely dug out the T3 shirt tonight and... FINISHED IT! Yippee-freaking-kai-yay (how on earth is that spelled anyway?)

I decided to loosely bind off the two small live sections on the front and back neck and do single crochet as I did before (and ripped out!). But this time, I decided I would open the shoulders up a bit. Remember the part where I taught myself three needle bind off? Well, lucky day, lucky day. It just so happened that I started from the outside of the shoulders and worked inwards, on both shoulders! I love me. It turned out very nice and easily fits my big shrek-head.

It actually fits well (imagine that!) although, I wish that it was about two inches or so longer. I love the yarn that I used but I guess I should wait until after I wash it the first time to really decide, LOL.

Also, here is a gratuitous WIP shot of that polar spun blankie I am doing. I decided to beef it up by stranding some off white acrylic with it. It turns out that, a. the neighbor I am making it for is actually going to have another boy and, b. it is too time and yarn expensive to give it to a random neighbor. I guess I will finish it and put it away for someone special. I am doing the tumbling dice stitch pattern but the polarspun is hiding it. It is mainly coming out as a three-D effect rather than actual stitches. I like it. I am going to use the stitch pattern in something else because it is really interesting but begs to be seen.

Posted by DebC at August 29, 2004 10:23 PM

Comments

Deb, both look great, and you do too! :D

Posted by: Brenda at August 30, 2004 01:46 PM

I love the shirt. You did a really good job. I also like the baby blanket, and I can see the squares.

What project are you working on now.

Posted by: Kim at August 30, 2004 03:20 PM

If you put it away for someone else you will still have to make her something. Does the pink really invalidate it? Babies dont care. I would give it to her anyway. So what, pink. Theres also blue and green and yellow..Do baby boys get doomed to gray so early?

Posted by: susan lord at August 30, 2004 04:30 PM