Hand-dyed, hand-spun, hand-knitted pinwheel vest
We celebrated "second Christmas" on Sunday since Steph wasn't able to make it home from Boston for "real" Christmas.She's been a busy girl with work and school, but she still had time to complete some pretty fantastic homemade Christmas gifts. I was left slack-jawed when I opened my gift from her. She had made me an amazing pinwheel vest, using a combination of commercial yarn and her own hand-dyed, hand-spun! Andrea commented earlier in this blog that I might have teared up a little. She's right, I'm a wuss about stuff like that. And I know how incredibly many hours she put into that gift. I absolutely love it!
She used a free pattern from Elann as her starting point, then made it into a vest.
I just love it! I wore it yesterday and it made quite an impression on people at work, many of whom are knitters themselves.
We had our after-work knitting group last night and I added a few more inches to the Knit a Mile Project. So I'm up to maybe 325 yards done. It was fun to see what other people were working on, I wish I had taken some pictures. We had a needlepointer there, and a crocheter, in addition to a half-dozen knitters. One of the women brought her 7th grade daughter who does some crocheting already and is now wanting to learn to knit. I love it ...
