This is the Metropolitan Diary Skirt, from Twinkle's Town & Country Knits. Isn't it cute?
Ladies and gentlemen, I knit a skirt yesterday. I've been wanting to knit a skirt for quite some time now, but it's taken awhile to find a pattern that was not a) knit on teeny tiny needles, 2) mildly frumpy looking and d) too long for someone as short as I am. Finally, FINALLY I found a pattern that fit the bill and that I loved, and so I knit the skirt up there yesterday and wore it to work today.
That is not my skirt up there, nor are those my legs... or my hips... or my hiney. That is the lovely photo of the lovely model in the book. I am having the darndest time getting a picture of me in my skirt - which is a nice taupe-y brownish gray color - because it's cold and gray and disgusting out and apparently the light in our house isn't sufficient enough for photography. *shrug*
At any rate, I knit this skirt and I wore it to work and even though that isn't me in the photo, I love the skirt and think it's positively adorable. I was actually bummed that none of my coworkers asked about it, although to be fair the portion of my body that the skirt was on is well below the eye level of most average-sized adults, and so they probably didn't get down that far when saying "Hello," and "How was your weekend?" and all that.
Suffice it to say, this project gets a big 'ol thumbs up, and I'd be happy to share my project notes - I had to make some modifications to accommodate the hips and hiney not shown in the above photo - with anyone who is interested in making one of their own.
In other news, I had every intention of making Stuffed Cabbage Stoup for dinner and writing a long, rhapsodic post about how much I love and adore it and want to make stuffed cabbage-y babies with it... (weird, right?) ... but now that I am home from work I am sleepy and congested and starting to think that the leftover BBQ Meatballs and mashed potatoes from the other night might be a better, faster, no-actual-cooking-required sort of option.
They really were quite good...
I am just still incredibly impressed that you can knit actual, functional things. I hit my limit with scarves. Plain scarves that are basically big rectangles. :) So yay for you! You are awesome!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, the more I look at that photo, the more it looks like the model's leg has been amputated. :)
I'm half way through my first real crocheting project - and this gives me hope.
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