Great Gran made the loopy bit and here are the finished pictures of Sitcom Chic.
I am not especially happy with the button that I ended up with, but I can always change it later. Buttons are nice that way. Too bad you can’t see all of the helicopters that went by while we were outside taking these. We’re right down the road from Hurlburt Field so we get a lot of military air traffic. Which is noisy, but pretty cool to watch.
And I made the Gatsby swatch.
I really like this yarn! It’s got a little bit of a hand spun thick-and-thin to it. That, combined with the softish texture and occasional tweedy bits makes for knitting pleasure. It’s so much of a pleasure that I have already finished the front and back. Three stitches or so to an inch makes an awful quick-knit.
We’ve been over to the to the Mary Esther branch of the Okaloosa County Public Library Cooperative to make sure our library cards still work. This library is packed to the gills with mysteries (I guess that’s what little old ladies and snowbirds like to read) so my beach literature choices are limited. I don’t mind, it is much easier to knit and read at the same time if the story isn’t hard to follow. All this to say: the new trend in mysteries is food. The authors incorporate food into the story in some way (a bake-off, the protaginist owns a cookie store) and then include recipes. Which is pretty cool – I’ve got a new fudge cupcake recipe that uses raspberry syrup. The way they talked about those cupcakes in the book, they sound Divine. I can’t wait to try them.
It has taken me all afternoon to get this written. I had to take a break to wash the dog, break up the cat chase, fix supper and go to the grocery store. Now, I am going to watch some gymnastics, finish my book (this one has a recipe for strawberry shortcake) and go to bed.