I am contemplating taking a new step in letting go of consumerism. More pointedly, stopping the onslaught of non-Australian made products in the home. A few months a go I gave up Shampoo and Conditioner using bicarb soda and vinegar instead with little change in the way my hair looks or feels and a long time ago I gave up on deodorant for bicarb soda. I still sometimes use their commercial counterparts when my “potions” (as Pete call it all) run out or if I am away and haven’t brought them along. Sometimes bicarb doesn’t cut it under the arms but mostly it does – especially if they are hair free!
Anyway my newest thought comes from a need for new underwear. My undies are falling apart…holes, daggy, more holes and threadbare. It’s a sorry state but do you know how hard it is to buy Australian Made undies!?! I started sewing up a few pairs of leggings for Sophie a few weeks ago – the overlocker had a fit and needs a machine doctor – and I put them aside but the cut pieces have been floating around and they made me think of undies.
This morning I finally did some research and found this site that really appealed to me – not the bottom, the pattern and instructions! It’s not a project for today or even next week but it’s on the “to do list” with high priority!
P.S. I actually took some photos of MY bottom in my undies but was so shocked by the sight I’m off to climb a mountain!!!
She’s the light of your life:
She’s oh so grown up but still so small:
She makes you laugh, yell, cry, dance and giggle.
I seem to have found my straps in knitting again – not many photos to share but I have been doing it! Friday a week ago I started the Girl/Boy Zipper Jacket from Patons 8ply Herdwick for Outdoor Kids – the book title just sounds like the patterns in this book should be knit for my children! – and by the Sunday I had finished the back and both the left and right sides. I cast on for the sleeves – both at once – and knew it would languish in my current knitting bag for a long time… Why are sleeves so non inviting? The thing about this jacket is that we (meaning Sophie and I) decided to put stripes in it which has made it more exciting for me to knit and used up some of Nanny Gwen’s stash and it is in colours that Sophie has chosen so it may actually get worn.
Fronts and Back of Jacket
Almost there
I picked up the sleeves again yesterday – a week isn’t too bad at all – and was almost up to the underarm decrease when I thought I should check how long the sleeves should be… 25cm from beginning along side seam. Ok. BUT, for the stripe combination I have used on the fronts and back it only measures 21cm so I need another 4 cm before starting the underarm and raglan sleeve cap. No big issue, I just do 2 extra stripes at the beginning of the sleeve and then they will match up the body.
Here’s the hitch, I have knitted 21cm on BOTH sleeves when I have realised this. What would you do? Would you a) frog the lot and begin again, b) just keep knitting stripes and then match the raglan up again c) somehow frog the cuffs and put the extra stripes there and not worry about the shaping being not quite right, d) some possibility I haven’t thought of?
Please let me know what you’d do and I think about it for a day or two and then pick it up again… bugger!
