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rhysianaAs I'm sure I've mentioned here, I re-took up knitting during the pandemic, specifically intentionally easy, boring patterns I can do while watching TV with subtitles, and this has been great on several levels (soothing, gives me permission to not take a hobby to the most complicated extreme, etc.), but I haven't been great about actually doing anything with my finished items that were actually for me (and not blankets). But I have finally actually Worn Things I Made!
Last weekend was my dad's 75th birthday, but he didn't want to do anything big, so my mom made reservations for a small group at a local restaurant and I used it as a reason to put together a more interesting outfit than usual: jeans (because it's not that fancy of a restaurant), one of M's business casual dress shirts that he'll never wear again because he no longer works in an office (white with blue, purple, and gray vertical stripes), and my bias-knit purple gradient wrap. I was very pleased with it, got several compliments, and have resolved to appropriate more of his shirts. Hilariously, because he is so tall, they are longer on me than some dresses I own.
My dad was also very eh about presents, so I decided to play with suminagashi again, since it often results in patterns that look rather like wood grain and woodworking is his main hobby. I didn't leave myself enough time to actually do anything with the prints, but I took them with me in a folder to let him pick which one he liked the most, and now the plan is to combine it with his newest fun thing, taking the tops off beer and wine bottles to turn them into vases. I just have to wait for him to identify a new wine bottle to sacrifice, take the label off of it, and then I can Mod Podge it up. Not sure yet what I should do with all the other prints.
Then last night I went with my mother to the ballet and finally had an excuse to wear the cape thing I finished a few months ago. (Vastly oversized drop-shoulder vest? Ruana with closed sides? Cape thing.) Very satisfyingly swooshy. Also satisfying: my hair is finally long enough again that I can get it into the only bun style that for sure holds without everything all slithering down. I haven't done ballet since I was 10, but I still feel like my hair should be in a bun when I'm there.
The ballet itself was very good. An adaptation of Orpheus & Eurydice, apparently premiering in this season of our ballet company, with super great costuming and art direction. I really wish they would take more production stills than just a single image of the leads for the program so I could link to them. The Furies had bat wings! Eurydice's Underworld outfit was so haunting! I might be forced into trying to draw some of them.
Now back to working on the cardigan I had put on hold to make an afghan for my niece's birthday, which fortunately knit up much faster than I feared. Maybe now she'll stop stealing the one I made for my brother.
Last weekend was my dad's 75th birthday, but he didn't want to do anything big, so my mom made reservations for a small group at a local restaurant and I used it as a reason to put together a more interesting outfit than usual: jeans (because it's not that fancy of a restaurant), one of M's business casual dress shirts that he'll never wear again because he no longer works in an office (white with blue, purple, and gray vertical stripes), and my bias-knit purple gradient wrap. I was very pleased with it, got several compliments, and have resolved to appropriate more of his shirts. Hilariously, because he is so tall, they are longer on me than some dresses I own.
My dad was also very eh about presents, so I decided to play with suminagashi again, since it often results in patterns that look rather like wood grain and woodworking is his main hobby. I didn't leave myself enough time to actually do anything with the prints, but I took them with me in a folder to let him pick which one he liked the most, and now the plan is to combine it with his newest fun thing, taking the tops off beer and wine bottles to turn them into vases. I just have to wait for him to identify a new wine bottle to sacrifice, take the label off of it, and then I can Mod Podge it up. Not sure yet what I should do with all the other prints.
Then last night I went with my mother to the ballet and finally had an excuse to wear the cape thing I finished a few months ago. (Vastly oversized drop-shoulder vest? Ruana with closed sides? Cape thing.) Very satisfyingly swooshy. Also satisfying: my hair is finally long enough again that I can get it into the only bun style that for sure holds without everything all slithering down. I haven't done ballet since I was 10, but I still feel like my hair should be in a bun when I'm there.
The ballet itself was very good. An adaptation of Orpheus & Eurydice, apparently premiering in this season of our ballet company, with super great costuming and art direction. I really wish they would take more production stills than just a single image of the leads for the program so I could link to them. The Furies had bat wings! Eurydice's Underworld outfit was so haunting! I might be forced into trying to draw some of them.
Now back to working on the cardigan I had put on hold to make an afghan for my niece's birthday, which fortunately knit up much faster than I feared. Maybe now she'll stop stealing the one I made for my brother.
