My adorable & delightful co-worker Logan Rockefeller Harris sent this photo to me & I squealed with joy when I saw it! I LOVE over-the-topness, and I LOVE knitting. So as you can imagine, I LOVED this dress. Would I wear it? Probably not, & only because those hands look mighty uncomfortable! Here is one more shot...
What else is going on in my glamorous & exciting life you may be asking? Well let me tell you all about it! School is flying right along. I have said it before and I will say it again, "man oh man, the quarter system sucks"! It is just plain impossible to fully grasp difficult concepts like two point perspective in just a couple of weeks, especially when you are still trying to wrap your cute little brain around the first two weeks of one point perspective. I am actually enjoying AutoCAD quite a bit. And my commercial design concepts class is a ridiculous amount of work, but I am getting TONS out of it.
When they conied the phrase "cute as a button" they were quite obviously thinking of these. We have started carrying buttons at work & it has been proving to be a whole new addictive problem for me. I have always had an intense gravatational pull to buttons. When my grandma passed away, many many years ago I inherited her entire sewing room, which included LARGE boxes full of vintage buttons. I have never been the same since! Would you just look at those oranges! They actually have dimples & a little teeny green butt stem thingy on the bottom. You can almost smell the citrus-y goodness. **note** I don't really have anything planned for any of these buttons. They MAY wind up as embellishmebnts on a hat, pair of gloves, or replacing old tired buttons on a vonateg sweater or two. OR they may just stay in my button stash, making me happy in their own little secluded way.
I have not been knitting very much at all for the last few weeks. I think that I have maybe picked up my needles two or three times in the past 3 weeks. I am still knitting the two pairs of magic loop socks, and just yesterday I started another elmer fudd hat. his one is double strand worsted weight, ella rae in lichen & brown sheep's nature spun in grecian olive. I am now wondering if I will like the color blend after it is felted.... I guess we will see. I haven't had much luck knitting this hat for myself, but the ones that I make for everyone else come out great! I will spare you yet another picture of the same socks, but here is a boring photo of the fudd hat.
SOOOOO, Tammy Teaches, what's that all about? The lovely Sile (pronounced Sheila), has an amazing new thing going on. knit-one-one is her creation, a sort of knitting rec-cenetr/community/school. I suggest visiting the website to obtain a much better description. I was fortunate to have been invited to teach classes at knit-one-one, and my first class for Sile will be next month. Check out my bio for funny pictures & riveting info of yours truly. I will say it again, knit-one-one is an amazing resource for knitters. If you live in the Bay Area you shuold take a class. And if you don't live here, you should take a class the next time you are visiting the Bay Area... Nessie!
Congratulations on your class! Knit One One sounds like such a wonderful idea. I hope the class goes well.
ReplyDeleteThat dress is hilarious, but kind of scary! It reminds me of one of the dresses in the fashion show portion of The Women.
DUDE! I so stopped by the shop and dropped 50 ductets... got complimented on my sweater (that I didn't knit, but was buying yarn to copy) I was too shy to ask if you were there- but was totally sending you thoughts!.
ReplyDeletegladd to see you are doing well.
Acad is similar to the type of work I do (GIS) go girl.
That dress is a hoot!
ReplyDeleteSoo...Since I can't make it to a class (too far away), I'm wondering, how do I get my hands on a pattern for your fabulous hat??
That dress really is great. And thank you for all the kind words about knit-one-one. I am thrilled, thrilled, to have persuaded your wonderful, creative, terrific self to teach a class!
ReplyDeletehey there Tammy! love the dress! I guess the hands do look a bit uncomfortable for, oh, say everyday wear…
ReplyDeleteso glad you're going to be teaching at knit-one-one. it's shaping up to be a truly formidable crew!
by the way, that really pretty teal pastaza I bought from you lovely ladies at article pract a few weeks ago? I finished the sweater! I put the pattern tweaks up at woollywumpus.blogspot.com.
see you 'round! ;)ej
Shut up! Tammy, I am so glad to have found your blog. I don't know if you'll remember me (Paula, I used to come into AP with Staci from time to time and I moved to England). I LOVE that hat pattern. Will you be teaching in July? I'll be visiting the States then and will come take a class (hint, hint). Kisses, P
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