Off the needles

A finish this weekend!  Darling daughter-in-law bought this yarn for me on their honeymoon in New Zealand.  It's their first anniversary today!!!  A large hank of 80/20 merino/nylon fingering yarn like 760 yards of the variegated orange (small ball in bottom pic). And that's all the yarn I have left.  After shopping local and no luck for a matching orange/rust colored yarn I ordered a couple skeins and found a great match. I knit 4 rows of the NZ yarn and 2 rows of the near match of Shiney Penny  by Yarn Love from Simply Sock Yarn company.  The sleeves are the shiney penny yarn.  The pattern is Autumn Square by Hinterm Stein. This is the second pattern I have knit of hers and love them. The bodice is garter stitch so all knitting, the only purling is the first few rows of shaping the neck and the shoulder insets where the front and back of the bodice are joined.  Her directions are so clear and easy to follow. I was happily knitting along and missed the square design feature oops. I like it without.  The sleeve is picked up and knit in the round with a few rows of purling before the cuff is split with more rows of knitting the garter stitch. I did a little more shaping in the midriff because I do not have narrow hips like the designer.  The bodice area would have looked sloppy big on me and I like things a little more fitted.  The neck, cuffs and hem are all finsihed with a mini I-cord.

Darling daughter was here for the weekend to help me celebrate my birthday.  We went shopping in Sioux Falls, I picked up my sewing machine after getting it serviced, I've been with out it for over 2 weeks maybe thats why I haven't done much recently, not really I have a spare, that excuse doesn't work. We did a little shopping, wore a mask in each of the stores and a squirt of hand sanitizer.  She bought lunch!! always a treat when your adult offspring pick up the tab!!! Then we stopped at the apple orchard and bought a couple bags of apples.  We had a great weekend. Hubby was off elk hunting and he shot one. Still celebrating  --Ann--