a vase of flowers, and basket of zippers
Working away on The Self-Made Wardrobe. Day 17 was the first of many little black dresses.
A pile of yarn, became a pile of swatches, turned into a row of mounted swatches.
And more yarn came for more swatches.
The sweater has gained sleeves.
And a vase of flowers, and basket of zippers is gracing my coffee table.
Introducing the Self-Made Wardrobe
I want to tell you about a kind of crazypants, new project I’m doing. I mentioned it in Friday’s finished object post, but I want to tell you more about it.
I am going to wear an entirely self-made wardrobe for an entire year. That means, for a year, I’m going to only be wearing clothes I’ve made.
Yea, only clothes I’ve made. For an entire year.
I said it was a little crazypants, didn’t I?
The project is called The Self-Made Wardrobe, and it’s got it’s own blog over at SelfMadeWardrobe.com, where I’ll be posting all about making clothes, loving your wardrobe, fashion, identity, and wearing things we love, along with the clothes I make, and the clothes I wear. All focused around building a wardrobe to house the world that is me, and all written in a non-shallow, non-fussy way. I’ll also be writing a serial book, all about helping you build a wardrobe to house the world that is you.
I’ll still be here knitting my crazy shawls, writing patterns, writing books, but I’ll also be posting some sweater knitting as well, and maybe only working on one or two shawls at any one time (instead, oh say, five.)
I’ll also be pulling out some seriously old works in progress.
Like this sweater. And this one. (which I last blogged about in June of 2012…)
You can read more about the project here.
And get self-made wardrobe blog updates straight in your inbox here.
Come over and check it out, or at least look at the oodles of fabric I picked up this weekend.
FO: The Jade Sweater
Pattern: a basic top down yoked tunic
Yarn: JaggerSpun Zephyr.
Colorway: “Peacock″
Yardage: one 50g ball, 560 yards
Needles: 3.5 mm (US 4s) 24″ circulars
Dimensions: 33 inch (84 cm) bust
Technically I haven’t washed this yet, so it’s not 100% done, but it’s like 95% done, so I figure it counts.
I made this and the dress underneath it as part of The Self-Made Wardrobe, which is a project I’m doing where I only wear clothes I’ve made for an entire year. Yep. So I’m spending this month frantically making clothes, and I’ll start wearing them June 1st. Which is in 2 weeks. eep! You can check out and follow the project here.
Remember remember!
The price of Shawl Geometry 1 and Shawl Geometry 3 will go up this evening, so if you’ve been thinking about getting either of those books, now would be a good time to get them. Shawl Geometry 1 is currently $23 and will go up to $25, & Shawl Geometry 3 is currently $17 and will go up to $20.
Here are the links:
Shawl Geometry I: the math of shaping shawls for non-mathy people
Shawl Geometry II: 19 more funky shawl shapes to design and play with
Shawl Geometry III: the relationships behind the numbers
Have a great weekend!
