After weeks of sitting around my living room in a basket, waiting for its collar to be bound off and its sleeves to be sewn in, the Salt and Pepper Jacket is done!
We went out of town for the weekend to visit family, and I brought it along, thinking that surely I could find two hours to finish the job. Charles and his brother took Eva, Ella, and their cousins swimming. I stayed at the house with my sister-in-law and father-in-law. We talked and sipped coffee while I worked on the jacket. Very pleasant.
Now I have to write instructions and send the sweater to INKnitters for the Summer 2005 issue. I’m posting a preliminary sketch instead of a photo, because you will be able to see the real thing in the magazine in a few weeks. The jacket is for girls, ages 8 to 12 or so.
See posts on March 22 and April 4, 2005, for more on the Salt and Pepper Jacket.