Hello! How are you? Doing well, I hope. It's a good morning here today - the sun is shining and the sky is blue. (Let's just ignore that light covering of frost on the ground for now.) Pixie and I are going carriage-driving this morning - it's our regular Monday morning fixture. Actually, she does the carriage stuff, I just do the driving. But that's fine. We meet up with a lovely group of ladies who are fabulously knowledgeable about horses (and other stuff too). They're the kind of intelligent, confident ladies that I always wanted to be when I grew up. I'm still working on that. Pixie loves it, she gets into the carriage and talks the entire time which is very entertaining. Talk, talk, talk and then it's back to school and Don't Talk. Such is life.
I've finished my puff sleeved cardigan from A Stitch in Time and I have to say that the knitting and seaming was a dream. The yarn is Castlemilk Moorit and 'grew' on a farm a couple of miles away. The fleeces are sent to The Natural Fibre Company at Launceston to be processed - they sell all kinds of beautiful yarns from British flocks - and it comes back to my neighbour's farm shop where I can buy yarn alongside my groceries. Low yarn miles.
The yarn is classed as a 'light aran' so it has made quite a dense fabric knitted on 4mm needles. It is fabulously warm and holds shape well so it's good for those enormous puffed sleeves. I quite like the effect it gives when worn with a dress - I did try it with my Freddies of Pinewood dungarees (hmm - just noticed I've got the colour that's NOT in the sale - isn't that always the way?) and I ended up looking simply square - and I do not mean that I was less than cool. The sleeves add A LOT to the shoulders
The outfit came together well. Pretty much as intended. I like that I've made the cardigan and the dress. Last summer, when we harvested vegetables from the garden, I aimed to make meals which were 100%-ers - home-grown vegetables, home-grown sausages, ice-cream from the milk of our own cow - it was deeply satisfying. This outfit is almost a 100%-er, at least until I manage to learn how to make underwear and shoes!
Cheerio for now. xx
Posted by Anita at February 1, 2010 09:34 AMLove the look.
Posted by: Geraldine Lees at February 1, 2010 02:27 PMI love your outfit!! You look so cool. I've been trying to make a dress for myself recently and have had very little success, yours looks like what i had in mind. Have you done a post about this before? Also love the satchel - is that from the cambridge satchel co? I've been hankering after one of them too! I want your style! A x
Posted by: little pink room at February 1, 2010 06:43 PMHello!
Your blog is just lovely! I hope you don't mind if I pop back in from time to time.
Beautiful cardigan, and I love the idea of a %100 homemade anything - food, clothes...and if you're interested, I know there are videos on youtube in which a woman teaches the making of underwear. Unfortunately, I still have no idea where to learn about making shoes. Unless, we're talking slippers or moccasins, of course.
Your %100er fooding reminds me of Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Have you read it?
Cheers!
Daisy
What a beautiful outfit! I found the Castlemilk Moorit amazing stuff to knit with and it was perfect for the puff sleeved cardigan. I love the way you have combined everything.
I would love to go for 100% one day too but there's always something you can't make yourself and its usually shoes!
Ruby xx
Posted by: ruby at February 1, 2010 08:00 PM
It's a beautiful cardigan. You look fab ! A great outfit.
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Posted by: LjMegan at February 2, 2010 10:38 AMOh fab! Fab cardigan, and fab that you aim to wear and eat everything you've made and grown, I bow before you with great reverence. Your whole outfit looks amazing, that red satchel is very cool, and the red tights and shoes are essential for the ensemble. And I can't help noticing a little black and white cat, who seems to be trying to steal the limelight! I've ordered a copy of 'a stitch in time', very exciting! Well done on this cardi, it really looks FABULOUS! Love Vanessa xxx
Posted by: vanessa at February 2, 2010 10:46 AMFabulous cardigan - looks fantastic with the dress, shoes etc.!
Must meet for coffee soon - I might be able to do wednesday morning or friday morning next week - are either of those any good for you?
Jo
xxx
You look super cute!! Love the new cardi.
Posted by: monica at February 4, 2010 05:11 AMWow, what a great outfit! The red goes so well with your new nicely fitting cardi.
Posted by: Elena at February 4, 2010 11:49 PMI love your red satchel almost as much as I love my purple one ;0)
Posted by: India at February 8, 2010 05:59 PMI found this article useful in a paper I am writing at university. Hopefully, I get an A+ now!
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