Finished on Saturday night. I even found vintage button, but they don't match - but the colors and size were right. It's VERY comfortable. I am happy with it. I have already cut out the pattern for the next one. It's a kitchy little print from the 50's and I only had 3 yards of 36 inch wide fabric so I have to choose my pattern carefully. More about that later.
I am still knitting. I finished a scarf I've been working on a while - it's the Magic Scarf from Laurie Perry's book, Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair. I lifted the pattern stitch, basically a basketweave stitch and made it wider and probably longer than Laurie did. I used the skein of Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool in brown I got months ago. I had very little left over - so 8 bucks worth of wool can go a ways. It's really soft too. AND it would work for a guy.
So far our summer has been pretty oppressive, and it's only been a couple of days since the beginning of summer, but the last 33 days of record-breaking Spring Temperatures has been relentless and, at least where we are, rainless. My garden has all but dried up and I am having to water every night when I get home and we are losing oak trees - big ones and I think our well has gone dry. We only use it for irrigation, but we kind of count on it so it's been a little more inconvenient having to use water we pay for. The cicada's are starting to bust out of their casings, and I snapped a shot of one on our porch the other morning. I alway find the process of metamorphosis a little amazing. I also kinda like cicadas.
Stay cool!
Love the new dress. Good work. Thank you for the picture of the cicada...that's way cool!
Posted by: margene | June 23, 2008 at 06:51 AM
That cicada picture is fantastic!! I've never seen one in the process of abandoning its brown shell before . . . when I was a kid we had a wooden patio cover thingy in the backyard, which seems to have been a favorite place for cicadas to "escape"; we used to knock down the brown shells and stomp on them to hear them crackle.
Posted by: chris | June 23, 2008 at 07:20 AM
Your dress is fantastic! Great fit and I love the pattern. Very inspiring.
I remember that cicada sound so clearly - I also remember it could make you a little crazy if you didn't have AC, which I never did in my apts. Photo's cool, but I'll let you keep the bugs :)
Posted by: Nancy | June 29, 2008 at 01:17 AM
OK, now I look at the comment above... guess fantastic can be applied to dresses and bugs.
Posted by: Nancy | June 29, 2008 at 01:18 AM
We miss you!
Posted by: Katy | August 05, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Wow, love the bugs! Your vintage fabric is really great and a flattering dress... maybe we need to get the fashion industry resurrecting some of the better 'looks' from yesteryear.
Posted by: Birdsong | August 08, 2008 at 02:26 PM
i love the dress! looks great on you..
Posted by: janet | August 11, 2008 at 10:06 AM