February Cottage
Pattern: Country Cottage Needleworks, February Cottage
Fabric: stitched over 2 on 35 count linen from Wichelt - lambswool
Floss: DMC and Crescent Colors - Pink Champagne and Pink Posey
I've started on my February Cottage and it's nearly done. I never thought I'd say it, but there really is A LOT of pink on this cottage. I've seen other mods of this chart and think I will also make my birds into bluebirds and might also leave off some or all of the floating hearts surrounding 'February'.
I'm still worried about my issues with the January Cottage, but I figure that I can finish stitching February and March, which make up the top row of my 12 cottage piece, before I do any major ripping out on January. At this point, I'm feeling that I do need to rip out the January cottage and start over. The problem is that if I rip out the cottage, there goes my snowman and tree also.
Peterborough
The body has been washed and blocked, so I've moved on to sleeves. I'm pretty sure that my 4 remaining skeins of Mirasol Yarn Wach'i will not be enough to knit both long sleeves, but thankfully a kind Raveller has offered to send me a couple of skeins so I can finish up.
Once I do get the sleeves knit up, seaming will be a long and tedious process. I actually enjoy knitting garments in pieces (many mini FOs FTW!) and like the structure seamed garments have, but sewing the pieces together by hand is a bit tedious. Hopefully I don't stall out on the finishing for Peterborough, because it's lovely and has had WIP/Hibernating status for way too long.
A New Start
Yarn: Mirasol Yarn Sawya
Colorway: Black
This yarn turned up at my mailbox this week. In the near future it will become a jacket/cardigan for me.
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