finished projects

The sweater set is finally done.  I tried it with a skirt out of a coordinating fabric which i made about 6 weeks ago.  This length looks better with a skirt than pants.  The skirt is now too big and I had to take it up about 3 inches through the waist.  It is too bad that it still fits through the hips.

I found the perfect buttons for the cardigan, the other pictures of the finished garments somehow did not come out well.  It is very dark and dreary today in anticipation of heavy rain so perhaps I will try again a couple of days. 

I cut another top of one of the matching fabrics.  It is probably weird to have a bunch of garments out of the same color knit but with different textures.  George has already asked if I am planning to make something that is not blue.

I also finished the lace scarf.  I just handsewed the lace in an overlapping seam at the back.  It is a simple thing really, inspired by one Nancy Erickson wrote about last fall.  The lace is a very dark eggplant, almost brown, you can really only see the plum tones in bright sunlight.  The colors are bits of fuzzy yarn that have been stitched onto the lace.