Jenny La Fleur

I knit two rows at lunch today. Sitting in the air conditioned hallway. There was no air in my room until probably 6th period--it was in the 90s today. But I enjoyed knitting, so yay!

And I love remote trading in Pokemon Go. I got an armored Mewtwo today! My pokefriend in Germany got a Galarian Articuno. You choose up to three pokemon and the person you're trading with picks which to give you. Very fun!

I wasn't thrilled with the shoulders on my 30s dress. The slit barely opened and my slopey shoulders were too slopey. I liked the mockup more and remembered that it had more gathers. So I opened the shoulder seams as much as I could without undoing hems and gathered the front more and gathered the back. Much better!

I need to do a little touchup where I couldn't machine sew. It's best to undo hems, but who really wants to do that when you can excessively fiddle?

I bought three skeins of yarn for the lacy sweater. One got me through just over half the back. The front is slightly less yarn than the back, so the next skein will easily get me through that. Then the lace peplum, cuffs, crocheted (ugh) neckline and belt and belt loops (also crochet, but I doubt I'll do that. I'll try...) are left. The peplum is almost as big as the back though. It's a half inch longer than the underarm measurement (or whatever I decide) and it's wider. The pattern calls for it to be the same width, but I'm two sizes bigger on my bottom half, so I downsized the top of the pattern and am leaving the peplum the same size, or maybe even a tiny bit bigger, so it's going to be 26 to 38 stitches bigger.


So I ordered another skein. It's always so hard to tell how much you need with old patterns!

The left shoulder on the sweater is growing, and I wound the second 450 yard hank of lace weight yarn into a ball.

The 30s dress bodice is almost done. I have to hem the sleeves and finish the neckline binding. The pattern calls for facing the sleeves, but that was too stiff.

As expected, I needed to tweak it a little once I sewed it. It's too long waisted in front and I opened the sleeve seams a little more. It's basically a kimono sleeve, but it has a seam at the top and the sleeve is open over the shoulder.

I'll do the hand sewing tonight and start the skirt tomorrow. If it gives me any trouble, I'll just use the seahorse skirt or the 30s Melisandre/linen skirt. That one does have flare that the seahorse one doesn't. I don't think it will give me issues though, even though I did notice it has straight edges where the original drawing of the layout has curves. We'll see...

Even vacation days need naps. I'll start the dress tomorrow...

I bought cat toys today, and they like them!


Triple feathers on a wire and a thing with feathers that plugs in and wobbles on its own.

Sid loved the triple feathers so much that he jumped higher than I knew he could, landed on Tom and landed on and crushed a collapsible hut which I had to pop back into shape. Poppy was a fan too, if startled by his lump of a brother.

Will they still like them tomorrow? They are cats...

Amy was un town for a game board convention, so I went and we also went to dinner. So nice to see her!

At the eye doctor, waiting on the surgery consultant. I don't have keratoconus! I have astigmatism and cataracts. I still have to see the retina specialist on the 27th, but I can have surgery and multi focal lenses!

This has been a lot!