Brittany is one of our newest and certainly our youngest Knitwit. Betty introduced her to knitting this week while her mother worked on mastering crocheting at the other end of the table. I'm trying to finish the socks I started last fall. Socks are a lot easier to deal with this time of year than that heavy wool cardigan. The last time I worked on the cardigan I felt like I was holding a 75-pound lamb on my lap.
Have I mentioned that Ouizer is helping Weather and I make t-shirt quilts? Weather's creation features Rock and Roll Half Marathon t-shirts and I'm cutting up all the ratty t-shirts in the Ancient Mariner's drawer, the ones he should have retired ages ago. It was meant to be a Father's Day surprise but I missed that deadline. Christmas is looking possible.
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| Ouiser shows us how to attach a border |
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| This serger binds and cuts the edges. It is an expensive, scary machine. |
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| Don't slice off your fingers, Weather! |
After our lesson this week we visited a local department store to select fabric for our borders. I bought plain red fabric for my borders and red-and-blue paisley fabric for no good reason other than I liked it. Weather's border fabric features fish and I'm starting to think I need a little piece of that too.
What I don't need, in case the Ancient Mariner is reading this, is a serger. They sound like jackhammers and would be just as dangerous in my hands.
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