My aqua Malabrigo shawl is finished as is my heathered blue Niebling shawl. The Alpaca shawl in dark red is also done - do I detect a pattern here that I managed to finish the three shawls out of these five projects and left the two garments incompleted? I'm not even wearing any of these three shawls very often - and I would get more use out of these:
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| My EZ 'Green' Sweater |
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| The Debbie Bliss Prima halterneck summer top |
It might help if I picked out some buttons, maybe that would motivate me? For the Summer Top I need an idea of what pattern I want to use to make nice broad straps. They should hide the bra straps and could be in quite a fancy pattern, I'd love something like a square with four leaves in the round, and adding as many squares as are needed to get the length of the straps.
Some of my other 'almost there' projects are these:
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| Also Debbie Bliss Prima |
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| Trachtentuch B by Engeln |
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| Bamboo summer top |
The green Prima top has wing sleeves, they are not attached all the way round. I need to neaten up the raw edges of the arm scye, they look awful just now.
The Trachtentuch needs to be cast off and then I want to dye this. It is undyed sock yarn from Violet Green - I haven't made my mind up yet what colour I want this to be. I am toying with either a rosé (a muted pink) or a brown that's in between a rich chocolatey to a dark cocoa bean brown?
And the Bamboo summer top needs some flower petals adding to the stalks (my gauge was out by so much that I didn't want to insert bobbles only to find later that I didn't like their placement) and then I want to dye this as well. The chalky blue colour doesn't do anything for my complexion (I look a bit ill in it) so I'd like this to be a darker blue.
And these are just some of my items that are close to completion but languishing in WIP hell for now!
I love the bright pink one on the top. That will be wonderful on a blah winter's day!
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