Saturday, September 29, 2012

WIPS

I have multiple projects that I'm working on right now.  First, another lace shawl, Cleopatra:
The there's the museum tunic, which is one of the main reasons why I wanted to purchase Modern Top-Down Knitting when I was stateside in August...but this had many false starts and froggings, and then I got stalled trying to get my hands on a crochet hook since I lost all my knitting notions this summer when I moved....


And then there's the cafe tunic, which I started  in late September while I was stalled on the museum tunic.  Nothing like knitting two DRESSES simultaneously....
Just for fun, here is a picture of the same cafe tunic which my friend Christine whipped up in just under a month.  This is only her third knitted project.  She did a scarf, then a cowl, and then decided to go ahead and knit a dress.  Here is the newly finished versionr: