Now that the Christmas sewing projects are complete, I can focus on my obsession with knitted skirts. My knitting coworker, Celi, and I split the cost of this peasant skirt pattern from Louet Sales we ordered online and headed to the LYS. Like always, I was drawn to the most expensive yarn in the shop for this project. For example, just the bottom ruffle is a whopping $40 bucks. I figure I'll be able to budget one ruffle every month!! More to come.....
Every year I make homemade Christmas gifts for female friends, cousins and aunts for Christmas. Just couldn't think up a good knitting project so I dusted off my (new) Pfaff sewing machine and constructed a purse pattern idea borrowed from a knitting meetup friend, Libby. Libby explained a girlfriend of hers made up the pattern and sewn them for all her friends. Of course, I had to make one for myself in cowboy boot material.
Husband and I rented a Harley Davidson Fat Boy for the day and rode along the North Shore of Oahu. It's famous for surfing and the winter tides from Japan were at their highest with 30 foot waves and shorebreak warnings. We stopped for a roadside shrimp lunch, got rained on momentarily in the moutains and had a iguana run across the road in front of us. It was a good ride.
I was able to locate a knit shop in an office building in downtown Honolulu. Being in a flip flop state of mind, I purchased sock yarn with a pattern that separates for your big toe to wear with flip flops. I was told knitting isn't very popular in Hawaii but natives do knit Lei's out of eyelash yarn. It makes sense - not a great need for sweaters and wool socks with winter temperatures rising to low 80's.
