Sleeves for CeCe
CeCe is moving right a long. I completed the body up to the point where the sleeves are joined and knit both sleeves. I got a little lazy with the sleeves and decided not to do the tubular cast on that I had done for the ribbing at the base of the body of the sweater. My guess is that that omission won't be very noticeable.
The next step is to join the sleeves to the body of the garment and to get ready to do a lot of raglan shaping. This will make for a lot of stitches, but I'm hoping that all the shaping will distract me from the paying too much attention to that big number.
I was hoping to get farther on CeCe this weekend, but with another trip to Michigan planned for us over Memorial Day, John and I figured that we needed to get some plants into the ground and into planters. My favorite purchases of the weekend? A double white peony with pink trim that will keep my lonely red peony company (but definitely won't be flowering this year), a Candy Corn plant that has lovely little flowers that look like candy corn (and will probably summer outside and winter inside, and two little lavender plants that I hope won't mind living a perennial lifestyle in a planter. I have visions of fresh lavender to use in sachets and to perk up my house during the winter. Funny, how I never really liked the smell of lavender when I was growing up, but now I find it incredibly soothing.
Thank you to everyone for your kind comments about my pincushion. I did have a lot of fun making it. Pretty neat when you can combine three different craft forms into one project! I may try to do some similar projects in the future if I can find some more small and interesting cross stitch motifs.
CeCe looks lovely and the deep lavender color should look great on you.
CeCe looks lovely. I really like it. I keep forgetting that Bonne Marie does her raglans as bottom-up. I'm contemplating making Sticom Chic b/c I'm always cold at work, but prefer the top-down raglan method, hmm, we'll see. You're getting closer, it will soon be over!
That is a stunning color for Cece, and it look fabulous!
I have a number of books with small cross stitch motifs in them ranging from animals, plants, holiday motifs to alphabets. Would you like me to send them to you to look over?