Buttons

Aug. 20th, 2013 02:35 pm
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Because I wanted to enter my sweater in the county fair I sat down and finished it. (Safety pins are a perfectly acceptable button substitute if you're just so happy you're actually done knitting you want to wear it and not fuss with fiddly bits! :p ) Coordinating buttons proved to be hard to find, so I made some from leftover yarn using the magic loop to start this

http://mrsmicawber.blogspot.com/2011/08/simple-crochet-button.html

I'm stingy and used only a 2" to 3" tail; also the center is 9 single crochet. Makes a smaller button, you see.

I put grosgrain ribbon on the button band. It's turquoise because I couldn't find copper and didn't want to go chasing all over the cities looking for something that might not exist.

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My sweater and my French braid fingerless gloves ended up entered in two county fairs. The results are... interesting. The gloves got a red both times, which is actually better than I expected because they're a little meh-looking and the yarn has pulled out of shape in a few places. But the sweater got a white at the first fair, which is also better than I expected because of all the flaws I know are in the sweater. And the second time it got a blue because it looks great and the fit is lovely and with the addition of the ribbon on the button band it hangs fabulously in front. So! Sweater judging seems much more subjective than accessory judging.

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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater



Autographed copies available here

I have yet to read a book by Maggie Stiefvater because I do not usually read paranormal romances. But Shiver is on my list of books I'd read if I saw it at the library. Because she has a cool blog and pretty covers.

However! The Scorpio Races has a premise I can get excited about because I am a horse story junkie and it sounds like one of the British stories that would get a chapter published in a horse story anthology with line drawings and everyone would wear turtleneck sweaters and jodhpurs and there would be lovely descriptions of the countryside and the occasional death-defying heroine on a black horse. And by entering in the contest I have a 0.0000004% chance of winning a copy that is doodled in and prettified.

So even though I didn't even know this book existed until this morning I am now excited about it. Also, even if horse stories aren't your thing, you should definitely listen to the trailer. The music is... SWOON.
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Dress design for Shabby Apple dresses Dare to Design Contest 2010





The Back Porch dress was inspired by a skirt I saw that had criss-crossing tuck design, like an irregular lattice, as its main feature and romantic paintings of young women reading poetry or sitting on an old swing in an overgrown garden.

It's a dress for exploring new places, a dress for hanging out with friends, a dress for sitting with a cup of tea, a dress for playing with the baby farm animals in.

I can see this dress made up in a lightweight linen or lawn in a variety of colors: from pastels for early spring blossoms to more saturated and vibrant solids for the burst of late spring color.

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