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The FING!

I keep calling this "the fing" on facebook. It's a cloak as detailed as Sewing 2 in this post . It's technically done now. I have some cosmetic things I want to do to it (to hide a seam I botched up) and it needs a third button. I'm also going to make a hood to go with it, but my bobbin has emptied (halfway through sewing a buttonhole) and I need to reload it with a different colour so I can get on with Sewing 3 (the red version of this) and quite frankly it's annoying me. I've been having tension issues with the sewing machine as well. Anyway, a couple of pics...  On a hanger so I could get a vaguely decent shot. I sewed the right hand triangle on the wrong way, so the seam is on the outside, but I'm going to cover it with some more cloth to make it look like it's a rip that's been repaired. It could kind of do with some decent edging, but it's supposed to be a scruffy cloak and I'm lazy. The buttons are silver, but t

Current Projects

So, current projects. There are plenty of them at the moment... Knitting 1. This is a shawl for me, using this pattern - Less is More from Ravelry. I'm about halfway done I reckon, and I'm really loving the texture that the yarn and pattern is creating. It got put on the back burner for a while as I was working on other things, but now it's getting a bit chilly, so I'm going to start working on it again so I have a scarf thing I can wear (to go with the billion other scarves and shawls I have). Knitting 2. This is a Christmas present for my best friend (he knows about it because he had to pick the colours). I've called it the "Pathfinder Fibonacci" as the colours match the colours we use for Pathfinder LARP, and the pattern is this Fibonacci sequence scarf , although I've added an extra step, so I'm going from 55, as he's a tall lanky bloke (this is causing some issues as I'm burning through wool at a rate of knots). I'm ab