It’s summer in Chicago. We had what seemed like endless weeks of rainy, cold days in May and June where the temperature rarely ran above the low 70s. All of a sudden, we hit 90. Apparently without warning anyone, Chicago has decided to go in a hiatus from spring. I think we used to have at least a bit of nice spring weather here, but at this point I couldn’t swear to it.
Perhaps due to the weather shift, perhaps due to summer in general, perhaps due to the fact that as of this weekend I’ll have been out of town more weekends than I’ve been home since the beginning of May, my knitting mojo has been a little low. I haven’t finished a single project since my Ishbel. I’m slowly working along on my Footlights Cardigan. I love the pattern and am modifying the shape slightly, so it won’t nip in at the waist and won’t be cropped. It feels like the Neverending Cardigan right now, but maybe before it’s actually cool enough to wear it, it’ll be done.
In the meantime, I’ve picked up some embroidery. Damn, how did I forget that embroidery is so much fun?
This is two corners of a vintage handkerchief. The transfers are from from Jenny Hart’s Stitch-It Kit. Couldn’t you just keel over from the cuteness? Never mind the fact that I don’t use a handkerchief, and really never mind the fact that it’s technically probably a napkin anyway. It’s fun and I’m enjoying it, and that’s all that matters. I actually have aspirations to embroider some tea towels and start to do some sewing again, if I can figure out how to fix the bobbin problem that developed after awhile on my sewing machine. And by fix, I mean something other than fiddling with it for 20 minutes until I get it to work right. Every. time. Something is causing the bobbin thread to jam under the fabric and I need to do a serious investigation.
That’s one benefit of knitting—very little can go wrong other than user error! :)