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From today’s walk: 14F and enough wind to make the snow “fall” horizontally. 😦
Hello all, and I hope January is treating you well!
I’ve got some frosty pictures to show you, as well as some news, and, most importantly, sewing!
I participated in Friday Night With Friends last night, and did some work on another colorblocked fleece pullover. Do you remember the wild flowered fleece remnant I got from SCRAP? It’s now become this:
It’s hard to see here, but I’ve put in a black zipper which I took out of a cheap and nasty waist pack. I like the long zipper pull on it.
I’m using an old pattern (dated 1994), also from SCRAP, which should win some sort of award for least promising cover photos ever.
Don’t bother fitting–just make everything as large as possible!
The line drawings, though, show that this is a nice basic pullover that’s perfect for colorblocking (i.e., not a lot of seams to complicate matters).
The fit on this thing is SUPER weird, though. It’s designed to fit some sort of busty linebacker, as far as I can tell. In order to get those slightly-dropped shoulders, I had to bring the sleeves up a full three inches. I also had to narrow the sleeves by 4″ so they wouldn’t be massive. I took in the side seams, but I’ve still got all this room for the huge bust that I don’t have, and it’s now too tight at the hips. More work to be done there, needless to say.
And I can use all the fleece I can get. It has been SO COLD and SO SNOWY here–pretty unusual winter for us this year. I haven’t taken many photos because it’s been way too damn cold to go outside much, but here’s another one from this afternoon.
I’m starting to understand why “snowbirds” here travel south in the winter, while these obviously-not-very-bright geese and I stay here for some reason.
Partner and I took a trip to Portland last month and apparently brought the bad weather with us. It was a bit warmer than at home, which meant the snow had thawed halfway and had the usual Portland rain on top of it. 
BRRRR . . . I had packed for typical Portland weather, not this, so I wound up wearing many, many layers at a time.
Always looking for color.
A small part of the large stained glass window in the fire station near the waterfront Saturday Market.
In other news, you remember the sew-along that I was doing with the Sew-Alongs and Sewing Contests Facebook group, right? Well, I won! The prize package consisted of several indie patterns, plus a gift certificate for some fabric–WOOT! And I’ve also been asked to run a 2-week sew-along in the group, to be announced tomorrow. That should be super fun and get me to FINALLY use some fabric I’ve had forever. Stay tuned for more on that.
I plan to focus more on quilting than clothing this year, though. I didn’t feel inclined to do any sort of wrap-up post at the end of the year, but I did look through what I’d made in 2016 and realized I managed to not finish a single quilt! I’ve been missing quilting and I want to get back to it. I’ve pulled out my blocks for the RSC 2015 quilt and I would like to finish that up–it’s way past time that I finally made a queen-size quilt for our bed. In addition to that, I’ve got a commission to make a simple baby quilt for a friend of my sister’s, and my niece will need one for her baby that’s due this summer.
So that’s the plan for the moment. I’m really glad I don’t have to actually stick to these plans that I make, as they’re constantly evolving, but that’s the plan right now. Until it isn’t. Which could happen at any moment.
Anyway, I hope you’re enjoying your January and keeping your feet warm (currently my number one goal).
STH
