The ‘pink ladies’ were teenagers! They are all students at Sandy Springs Friends School - their weaving teacher is in my guild! This is their second year competing.
Thanks Rox. Glad you enjoyed your trip to the Maryland Sheep and Wool. Sheep to Shawl competitions are so interesting to watch. Your sweater is looking great. Love your sewing projects.
Since it's already been 10 days since you posted, you may have already decided on your button hole band coloring, but I would definitely vote for picking up with the dark color. That would frame the stripes. It seems to me that if you picked up with the gray and did the ribbing without that dark pickup, the stripes would look like they've been left hanging.
I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool on Saturday with my daughter and it wasn’t very crowded except for maybe the food booths at lunch time, probably the rain kept it from being too busy. It was my first time there and we loved it!
Look at you go! Great jammies! They are super cute. Well done. And I love the sweater - it looks fantastic so far. Great colors. Look forward to seeing it completed.
Thanks so much for bringing me (and the rest of your viewers) along on your trip. Your sweater is GORGEOUS! Great sewing projects. Pjs are great “get back into it” projects, because they’re not going into public. If the hem isn’t perfect (or sleeves are different from the bottom), no biggie… if it doesn’t bother you. 😉 Once you get a pants pattern that fits, you can learn how to adapt that pattern to different looks, and whip out a pair of pants in a few hours, because you know it all fits, even the hem. 🙂
Love the sweater. Why don't you knit the 2 sleeves at the same time to ensure the dyed yarns match until you run out. Then whatever you dye after will also match for the rest of the sleeves.
Your Rhapsody Blouse looks so good on you, it also seems light and comfortable for very warm days. I love all your sewing projects, it is so refreshing, so summer like !!!
love the pjs , pretty sure the hems are going to be fine. I use my e spinner when i spin away from home , bought a battery pack . I bought the ashford, like the wood and the size. I use my majacraft rose or the kromski sonata at home...the later is very light and made for travel too.
OMG, my head is reeling. What an amazing episode. The light in your eyes when you were talking about the E spinner?? I think you should get one, and not the 3-D printer variety. Get the good one. You know, (I know you know!) that a good piece of equipment is going to further your outcome, whereas "cheaping out" is a recipe for frustration. As to your sweater, my first inclination was to say dark double pickup band , gray and then dark. Then, upon reflection, I wondered if that was going to be too much - - too stripey. I think the gray pickup with the dark edging will satisfyingly "match" the bottom ribbing edge. I still love the idea of the polo collar, but you know what you're about... The white blouse is lovely nothing dental hygienist about it at all. The fabric is luscious. Your bathrobe and jammies are mega fun and it looks like you've done a fabulous job on all. I am so impressed and inspired by your energy... And I just love seeing the twinkle in your eye! Thanks, Roxanne, for all that you give us!
I like the two stripes of the dark color with the gray in between. It would be beautiful. Can't wait to see what you decide. Your sweater is beautiful already. ❤
I am so glad you had a nice time in DC and Maryland. This is my neck of the woods and MD S&W is also my local festival- but I was there on Saturday. It is such a fun time. Hope you come back next year. Unfortunately, misty is our normal weather in May.
Thank you for the tour of the Maryland Festival! It’s on my bucket list for sure. Your sewing projects are wonderful and so inspiring. I hope to venture down the garment sewing path when I retire in the next year or two!
So glad you enjoyed our sheep and wool festival! I was planning to go on Sunday and hoping to run into you there - that would’ve been a thrill - but after a full day out in the rain on Saturday I wussed out and stayed home on Sunday. Probably just as well, as it is too easy for me to impulse buy from the great vendors there.
Very interesting share 😊, thank you. For your stripes cardigan, since it has horisontal strips, I feel it will be nicer with two dark blue vertical stripes. This will give a frame to the horisontal body. It is comming up gorgeously ❤
Hi there, its great to see that you are back. I know you are an adult and allowed to do things by yourself but I was wondering where you were. I am so pleased that you enjoyed your time in Washington DC at the Festival, it sounded like a really huge and friendly group. I was listening and knitting while I watched and when the screen changed and the photos popped up it was amazing. Love the Jacob sheep and all their different bits and the wool. Then when you were modeling that was fantastic, you are doing so well with that , your knitting and dying projects. I had better get off here and leave others room to comment. So lovely to see you and hope to see you soon. Take care.
I'm uploading one video per week, alternating between a Tues vid and Fri vid, so there is typically a Tues vid a few days after a Friday vid, and then it's about 10 days before the next Friday video.
Sweater is coming along nicely. The experimenting should help with some of the color decisions and collar style I would think. I like the construction of the back of the blouse. LOVE the jammies. I have a twin needle but haven't used it yet. I have a serger and a regular machine. You've been quite busy :)
Be grateful you didn't go to Rhinebeck. It was HORRIBLY CROWDED, we felt like a couple of sardines. People were forced to shuffle past exhibits. By the time you got near anything they were sold out. I'll never go back again!
I made pajama pants with the same blue and white foxes-bunnies-squirrel fabric! They’re sooo comfy! I’m looking forward to hearing about the high-waisted pants pattern because I have the same fit problem.
I guess I'm an oddball -- I think picking up in grey on the sweater with the dark blue only for the edging would be visually simpler. Two vertical bands of dark blue may create a busier visual that might draw attention away from and compete with the beautiful horizontal stripes. I'd probably have to create both and then spend days agonizing over the choice. 😆
I think the two dark stripes around the button band would look better, and echo the bottom ribbing. It's also great to see you get so excited about sewing and learning something new. If you want to find out how you measure up against standard sizing many pattern drafting books have standard measurements charts, the one most people recommend is by Helen Joseph-Armstrong.
I've been getting a lot of it at S R Harris, which is a sort of fabric discount warehouse. Others I have purchased from Treadle Yard Goods, where I've been taking classes.
I don't have any trouble with the double needle on my machine, but I have an old Bernina 830 from the 70s. Perfect tension, all the time. I had a coverstitch machine and I sold it. Maybe I am old fashioned but I didn't like it that much.
If you only tried the Nano you really should give the EEW 6.1 a try. I have one and absolutely love it. I did start with the Nano as I wasn’t sure if I’d like an E spinner at all and the price was great. I ended up selling it once the EEW 6.1 arrived. There are quite a few people in my online spinning guild who really love their EEW’s too. So much more affordable than the Hanson or Daedalus.
@@susancrosby4363 I tried both of the e spinners they had in their booth. Didn't like either one. That's the thing about spinning wheels: what one person likes, another person detests. It was the same when I tried treadle wheels. There were wheels I absolutely hated (which many people really like, and which I *wanted* to like, but just couldn't), and others that I adored.
I suggest you experiment with sewing fabric with this kind of neck openings. There are several ways to do it at the bottom. Some ways are more bulky than others.
Loving the sewing content! Will you be at Shepherd’s Harvest this weekend? I usually go to Maryland Sheep and Wool but decided to try Shepherd’s Harvest this year! 😊
I'm curious about the shearing, carding, spinning, weaving part of the Maryland Sheep & Wool. Were the looms already warped? I'm curious about the finished weavings being very colorful.
But intstead of the twin needle--which I can't use anyway, because my vintage machine can't accept it, it loads from the side--it's easier to just sew two rows of topstitching on a hem.
