Yup. The Carlos Miele sweater is getting bigger. Nope it’s still not finished. Nope, it’s still not terribly interesting to look at.
The BurdaMag that needs to get packed soon is shown for scale, and because I was flipping through it wistfully, reminiscing about my glorious sewing days (i.e. last week.) It’s dark times like these, as the needles click stitch by stitch, when I start to wonder whether you’re sorry yet that you told me to keep blogging about “whatever,” and whether the “It looks great so far!” comments are coming from other sewers who pity me in my sad knitting state. This is what it has come to. Pity and knitting. Perhaps I will put on some sweatpants. They’re more comfortable than yesterday’s cargo pants.
In the meantime, you’re best going off and finding something more interesting to read. Maybe there’s some great stuff about sewing from Denise on The Blue Gardenia blog today. Oh wait, no, it’s just more about lame old me and my sad little sewing space which doesn’t even exist anymore. Definitely check out her fantastic blog for her previous posts about more awesome sewing spaces from more interesting bloggers though. Sigh. I think I’ll go mope more and bake some cakes for other people now.
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September 3, 2010 at 10:09 am
dana
Heh… totally unrelated to your packing misery, but thought you might be interested in this NYTimes article from yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/fashion/02Small.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=small%20bust%20women&st=cse
September 3, 2010 at 10:27 am
Beth
Wait, you are baking cakes *for other people*? Who are you & what have you done with our beloved Selfish Seamstress?
Beth
September 3, 2010 at 10:30 am
Trudy Callan
Uh-oh. Baking for others? Are you getting soft?
http://www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
September 3, 2010 at 10:36 am
Stephanie
This sweater is perhaps your most suspenseful project ever. Never before have we had to wait more than a day to see final product.
I’ll be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see how it turns out.
September 3, 2010 at 11:25 am
Lynne
I am loving the scale of that cable!
I am knitting in the evenings while sewing during the day. Currently my sewing project feels like it is moving slower then the knitting, but perhaps that’s because I am on my last skein of yarn for a 7 skein stole.so I am rushing now to the finish line, thinking about the next project. While procrastinating from my sewing by checking out sewing blogs.
It looks to me like you are making good progress, and makes the rest of us meer mortals feel like we might be able to keep up this time.
September 3, 2010 at 11:29 am
Alison
Love it – I didn’t know knitting could be so exciting – or that your apparent boredom could be so amusing…keep it up :D
September 3, 2010 at 2:36 pm
NT
CAKES FOR OTHER PEOPLE??????
Get a grip, O Selfish One.
(I don’t mind the knitting stuff at all, since I’m prone to knittage myself. But the way to keep from getting bored is to start more than one project at once. Then you can cycle through them, and since the gaps between reports on any one item are longer, you get the effect of greater leaps of progress.)
September 3, 2010 at 3:18 pm
passiononthepages
okay You are really starting to sound depressed.. Can you at least sew something by hand? anything?
Carla
pursuingmydreamofwriting.blogspot.com
September 3, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Marie-Christine
Can I ask a stupid question? If you have bowls and pans and measuring cups and an oven to bake a cake with, why don’t you have a sewing machine? You packed it early because you were afraid you’d procrastinate wtih fabric instead of packing, didn’t you?
Well there you are then, knitting… Think how much you’ll appreciate sewing in a few week’s time :-).
September 3, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Steph
I want that sweater. I want to live somewhere that allows me to wear sweaters. Your sewing space was rad.
September 3, 2010 at 10:28 pm
magdamagda
The good thing abt knitting is it allows one to stay in bed all day… of course not in your case as you’re packing:D
September 6, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Christina
I like the sweater and the chunky cables a lot AND I really enjoy hearing about your knitting. Not only because I knit, too, but also because it is always a pleasure to hear you talking about whatever. :)
I just sit over a swatch on 2,5mm needles… I really envy the progress those needles you use are making possible. (And this burda is also an alltime favorite of mine).
September 11, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Arizona
If you think blogging about knitting is fun, you should try quilting. ;)