Sunday, April 12, 2009

Summer projects

I got a lot more stuff cut out a couple of weeks ago before I visited family in Seattle. It feels good to have made a dent in the (neatly stacked and organized) piles on the cutting table. This week, things will slow down and I'll have my evenings free again, so I'm ready to make a dent in the (neatly stacked) pile of cut-out projects while watching the rest of my Fred and Ginger boxed set and trying not to cry during "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle". Gets me every time.

My niece told me that I need to make a brown dress because she has a brown dress. Little does she know that I have some brown shirting with pink and red stripes just waiting to be cut out! Hooray! I've knitted a few more washcloths and am starting to feel a little more confident about actually achieving my goal to knit a sweater this year. My sister wants to get a big order of flour-sack towels to embroider and give away or sell, because we both have great ideas for such things. That may be a project for this summer as well.

That is, of course, if I can get my major summer project up and running by the end of May.

I'm making a wedding dress for a dear and lovely friend, and I'm SO excited I can't stand it.

That's right--a wedding dress.

I smile every time I think about it!