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august 26, 2003
lovely little things
This is becoming a trend. I seem to have little odds and end to report each week. My little list for you this week.
I took a trip out the fabric store last week and picked up some snaps to put on the button bands of the sweet heart and little star sweaters. I decided to go with snaps after hearing the suggestion from Gina. It's a very functional way to close the neck and you can still attach decorative buttons on the outside of the button band if you want. How clever! I found some grosgrain ribbon to give the button bands a bit more hold so they can stand up to snapping and unsnapping.

I've spent the last few weeks at Knitsmiths seaming and weaving in all the ends on these sweaters, so now that I've got all the little finishing supplies, I'm ready to cross these babies off the list!
I also picked up a zipper for the ribby cardie. It should match the yarn (Manos!!) I'll be using for the button bands quite well. Makes me almost excited about picking up a few hundred stitches.

And in other little goings-on, I've been futzing around with my finished projects gallery. Check it out if you're bored!
posted by alison at 7:30 am | in
pipsqueaks
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ribby cardie
I like the new gallery. It's funny to look at all your finished projects on one page and remember reading how most of them came into existence.
It's like a finishing party at the blue blog! I'll bring the kirs royales. (Have fun sewing in that zipper.)
Ooh, I like the lighter color of the band yarn, that's going to look so neat :)
Perhaps you might want to put some duplicate fair-isle type stitches elsewhere on the ribby to really pull the two colors together? (for some reason I've had duplicate stitch on the brain lately) =)
A finishing party, catered by Becky. Oh yeah, I'm liking it! Got anything to finish up? I have a whole stack (remember giranimals #2?!). May be time for another month dedicated to finishing....
I like the new gallery. I need to learn more about web developing so I can do cool stuff like that! Nice work!
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