Finished Objects: Summer

As usual, this past summer I had lofty goals for completing projects that have been sitting around in my to-do basket for quite a while. Unfortunately a trip to Germany and a lingering illness souvenir kept me mostly out of the creative loop until the end of July. What took me the most amount of time was this sampler which I started in June 2011 intended as a Christmas gift for Ravenna (oppps!).

I worked on it a bit while in Germany and finally finished and framed it as fast as I could. I did not frame it correctly. There is a whole process for framing embroidery that includes stretching and mounting boards and pins so that it doesn't look rumpled. Maybe I will get to that one day but for now, I am just happy it is done, wrinkles and all.

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 Ravenna needed slippers for her Waldorf classroom so I decided to knit and felt some for her. Knitting these was painfully easy as it was mostly stockinette in a large gauge yarn. Felting in a front loader however, took forever. Here is the link to the project and my notes on Ravelry.

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 Another easy project (ravelry link) to try to use up all that kitchen cotton left in my stash. Pretty self-explanatory. I will let you know how well it works.

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Lastly, a work in progress. An Autumn cardigan (ravelry link) for me with yarn (KnitPicks Palette in Cornmeal) gifted from Andrew last Christmas. I am hoping to get this completed by October but with the small gauge, I think that will be a miracle. Either way, it is lovely to be knitting in this fall weather.