Knit Sisters

I’m a little worn out today, and consequently have had a lazy kind of day.  I’ve gotten a few things done, but not much.  I did go ahead and put a facing on the leaf edging for Blue Bamboo. 

 

I just used the same yarn, having had no luck finding anything silk or rayon in the stash that would work for the facing.  I like that idea, though, and I’m definitely going to keep it mind for a future project.  (By the way, the yarn I’m using for this is Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in the color “Blue Paradise.”  It has stood up remarkably well to all my experimenting and ripping out.  Good show, Brown Sheep!)  I did go down a needle size for the facing, though, and then attached it with a half-graft.

Diane asked in the comments if you could finish each leaf point separately, like a sawtooth border.  I don’t know how exactly you could do that one this type of edging, which is picked up from the vertical edge and worked outward.  However, there are leaf edgings which achieve that kind of look that are worked in a strip and then applied, or can be worked perpendicular to the edge and joined to the body every other row, like you would on a shawl border.

Here’s a detail of the leaf motif that will go on the upper back; I didn’t think it showed up too well in yesterday’s photo.

I also finished another skein of the cabled yarn.

When I went outside to take my photos late this afternoon, Tortellini came over and talked to me for a while.

She loves to be outside in the summer, and walks through the grass as though she were a big cat stalking her prey on the plains of Africa.

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