Knit Devotion

Yes progress, even a little in knitting makes me feel good. I have the placket, collar, and arm bands done. It was a little tough doing then on dpn. The yarn is soft and silky (slippery) and I didn’t want to make it a tight guage. There were some slips and some working with the crochet hook but it’s done. Even with me not feeling the best today. My children have left me alone (miracle)
I love the look of the variegated yarn. It’s great yarn. Aslan trends Glacier del Cielo-100% cotton color #33. It’s prettier up close. My daughter seems to think it looks good and that’s who I am trying to please today.
Well back to the boring dress part. Lots of rows with lots of increases. The bottom of the skirt is flared so this will take me a while I suspect. Glad I love knitting and my daughter so much!!!

My daughter loves dresses. I think I better say that she adores dresses. The girl is a girlie girl. I was not and still not a girlie girl. Granted, I can dress up and look good with the best of them. But I can also get down and dirty and down right dirty when I need to.
I saw this pattern in the spring 2008 issue of Interweave mag. It was perfect for her. I even let her pick out the colors (pink, purple and yellow) that was predictable. It’s the same any time I let her pick colors. Like I said she’s definately a girl. So here’s the first part of it. It’s looking good.
I think I’m going to do the work on the placket, collar and sleeves now. The dress is long and flared so there’s going to be a lot of material to manuever around if I wait till the end. The placket, collar and sleeve bindings are going to be a variegated pastel cotton yarn. It’s beautiful in my opinion.
The yarn I bought at my LYS at her wonderful sale… for the first 10 customers on sale day received 40% off. Yes, I was the 2nd person in line 1 1/2 hours before the sale started. I was so excited. I love yarn and I love sales and both just get me so excited. I was at the store for 3 hours (after the doors opened) petting all the yarn. My husband called to make sure I was ok.
He loves me and my obsession. I love him. It’s a perfect combination.