Gotta Make …

I decided to play Month of Softies this month! The theme for April is Recycled Monster. Please meet Penelope. Her body is made from felt leftover from the hat and purse of this project. Her teeth are a broken hairclip. Her arms and shoes are from a Spaghetti Betty that came with a happy meal and her hair is from a scarf experiment for Barbie gone badly wrong. I hope that altogether she is better than the sum of her parts. At least, she was fun to make.

I‘ve gotten too lazy to think of names for my blog posts, but at least I am posting. Thank you, everyone who left those kind and wonderful comments and emails about my Kiri shawl! I wore it to church Sunday and got many more compliments. I didn’t think I would actually wear it, but it was just the thing for a chilly spring morning.

And what is that bit of pink to the right? It is almost a full back for Spring Fling! Well, kind of. My yarn is finer, I’m not really getting gauge, and I’m not really following instructions very closely, but if it works it will at least be spring flingish. I love the yarn. It is a prettier pink than i could capture in the photo, and very soft and light. I hope I have enough!

Isn’t she lovely? I used 3 skeins of Socks that Rock yarn in the color Lodenstone from The Fold.
:smitten: A special thank you goes to Jeanie, who gifted me with some of this beautiful yarn! Go check out her sock knitting group. We have lots of fun there!

5% yankee??? Sir, I must protest! I am Southun born and bred and as God is my witness, I neva, neva speak yankee!

I blocked Kiri yesterday and just have to unpin her and weave in the ends, which I forgot to do before blocking. This blocking thing is a miracle where lace is concerned. I wasn’t even sure I liked it before blocking, but now I love it. Photos later, if it doesn’t rain. Looks like it might, though.

I wore Elspeth Saturday. I am not entirely happy with it but it is wearable. See the sleeves? I don’t like the way they stick out, probably due to my narrow shoulders. I may try gathering in the bottom of them with some clear elastic and see if I like that better. Also, the neckline is so large, it tends to slip off my shoulders, but maybe gathering the sleeves would also help that some. I may even try throwing it in the washer and dryer because I don’t think having the whole thing shrink a bit would be a bad thing. This Espirit yarn is very stretchy and I think it would be better suited to a pullover or a shrug.

Look who we spotted on the pink amaryllis today.He is only about a half inch long. He was trying to nap but didn’t seem to mind me snapping his photo. Isn’t he a cutie? I put the amaryllis up out of Sophie’s reach so he wouldn’t get eaten. THIS kind of frog I like.