What did I do on my Christmas vacation? I knit a sweater. I cheated a bit because it’s short sleeved rather than long, but that’s infinitely more practical for Abu Dhabi weather so I’m going to pretend that was my plan all along.
It started here . . .
And grew to here . . .
Hmmm . . . now I can’t find a photo of myself wearing it . . . I remember standing in front of the mirror so I could snap a photo to send to my sisters (since they saw it in progress), but I must have imagined that. Or I intended to, but got distracted. It happens.
More knitting adventures. Yes, that is a sweater that I knit and then cut.
My vacation sweater success inspired me to take on a too big sweater from a few years ago. I created side seams on my sewing machine, taking it in about an inch on each side. Now all that’s left is to reknit the hem so it doesn’t look like it’s been taken in so dramatically. I think I’ve got an 85% chance of having it turn out to be a wearable item. Before surgery I only gave myself a 10% chance of success — it’s looking much better than I hoped.
And my other creative work of art from this fall? My clock. At school we were redesigning our library and I thought it would be fun to make a wall clock using books as the numbers. I found titles with numbers (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Three Times Lucky, etc), copied them, and then one of our art teachers applied the images to discarded books (bye, bye Gossip Girl). I sourced a motor and hands online (and learned that you need a high torque motor to run the larger hands) and it finally all came together last week. I love it.
And no, I didn’t find it on Pinterest, but years ago when we used to go to Pizza My Heart in Monterey, they had a huge wall clock made of movie posters and I always thought it would be fun to make one myself someday, using books. (And yes, it actually keeps time!)