Is it just me, or does the sleeve look like a fish opening its mouth for dinner, when the picture is sideways?
As you can see, the sleeves of Adult Honeybun are complete, washed and blocked! If you zoom in you can probably see the shoulder shaping in the top few rows of the sleeve cap – it is meant to be a subtle shaping feature.
The sleeves are also now dry as I took this photo three days ago, so later on I shall be seaming them. I wouldn’t usually seam the sleeves before attaching them to the body of a garment, but as the body is all in one piece it actually is easier to make everything fit this way round.
After sewing the underarm seam, I shall attach the sleeves to the body and then I’m ready to calculate and knit the button band. The trickiest thing will be working out the stitch counts for each section of each size and exactly where to position the buttonholes. Getting the button band around the corners will mostly be the same as for the child’s version of Honeybun.
I’m really looking forward to having some pancakes later – with sugar and lemon juice, just like we had them when I was a child, with too much of both, so they are crunchy and sour at the same time! How will you have your pancakes, if you have them?
I’ve got six more workshops planned and tickets are available for them all. They are published on Facebook and Ticketsource, although I do need to add them to my website as well. Here is the flyer that lists them all:
I did a little more crochet last night – behold the first of nine Persian Granny Squares that will help the octagons join together in the Persian Tiles Blanket designed by Janie Crow.
Before I went down to Mum’s last week, she asked me if I wanted to buy any marmalade oranges from her local fruit and veg shop. I wasn’t sure I would have time to make marmalade this year (and had I left it too late in any case?), but I checked how much we had left. We have lots and lots of jams and jellies, but marmalade? 4 jars. That was all. No way that would last us a year, so I did pick up some seville oranges and on Saturday I made 8 more jars. Next year I’ll try and plan ahead a little better!
I’m getting excited about the upcoming East Anglia Yarn Festival, and as well as planning which designs and samples to take with me, I’m planning which designs will go in the shiny new pop-up display stand. It has five levels and the big benefit of this stand over the table top ones is that you can see the picture on the front of each pattern at a glance. And then it folds down into a bag to make it easy to transport. Genius design!
I’ve done so much more knitting this week and I can’t show you any of it yet, so instead I shall leave you will a pic of the rather splendid amaryllis that we got for Christmas. The first flower spike had been making a bid for freedom whilst the bulb was still in the box and grew horizontal. This one, however, is much more upright! There’s some two-colour brioche inspiration potential in the patterning on the petals too!
Until next week, take care and enjoy your pancakes if you have them. K x