Showing posts with label vest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vest. Show all posts

Friday, October 7, 2011

what it turned out to be, instead...

so, I decided to take my very first cardigan for my daughter, which I knitted last march, apart
and make it into something else. 
although it was an emotionally hard decision(sort of) to make, 
the cardigan was very baggy around her neck, 
and I really wanted her to have something I knitted for this fall. 


  I purchased this pattern from Ravelry, my first purchase.
and for some reason, it was $1.20 off, which made myself justify buying the pattern 
with a promise of making more than one of them- maybe for gifts.


so, here it is!
I think I made the right choice! 
it was a super quick project, a piece o' cake.
this vest cardigan is a much better fit on her. I love the color on her, too :)

although I have been in the knitting binge lately and have a bunch of projects lined up,
 it started to drive me crazy as of yesterday...
I was excited to open my yarn order, but one of the yarn colors looked different from what I expected
(I'm sure it happens often when you're online shopping),
and I didn't read one of the patterns well enough that I am actually short on the yarn,
AND the yarn I picked for specific projects didn't seem "right" to me any more....
UGH!
maybe too much of one thing isn't good.
time for a little break?
perhaps...




Thursday, September 3, 2009

9pm last night

last night

a little past 9pm
I decided to work on this vest I made before.
little L was sleeping peacefully in the bed.


my vest was sitting on a hanger for a while.
I didn't want to sell it even though it didn't fit me well,
but I liked how it turned out when I originally made it.

why didn't I fix it sooner?
don't know!

I guess I get turned off and unmotivated when things don't turn out the way I want at first.

it was a simple fix though.
took me about half an hour.

little L was sleeping right beside my crafting corner.
(we don't have a bedroom :( but there is a loft instead...)
she wiggled a little bit when I ran sewing machine, but didn't really wake up.
what a good sleeper!



vest
with simple gray t-shirt
and boyfriend jeans(I love how they are called now! so very cute!)
and, YES!
I cut my bangs last week!
ha!
I just wanted something different.
it's been like 6 years since the last time I had my bangs...!!


I am really into GRAYS right now!
especially, charcoal gray.
and a combination of charcoal gray and black.



Tuesday, July 21, 2009

looking for a perfect vest

I've been in search of a perfect vest forever.
I don't have any vests in my wardrobe at all when I think about it.



this looked like the one I always wanted,
-very simple and well fitted.



after I finished it, then put it on,
it didn't fit well on me...
:(
waist was well fitted,
but the bust was just too big...
my body shape is not a glamourous type...

I will probably post this one on my Esty shop,
then try making another one.
maybe alter the design a little bit.