My first temptations.
I've been knitting along on my lace and my pink ballerina thing for Helena and not thinking anything at all like -- ooh, must buy yarn -- and feeling good about my incredible powers of resistance. And then today happened.
My sister is getting married. I am a bridesmaid and we are having a hellish time finding a dress that will fit all three of her very different bridesmaids: tall, slender and blonde; tiny and well- muscled; sliding into squashy post-childbirth pasta mammahood. Which one am I? Well, I'm the one waving a ladle and inviting you to mangia! mangia! Anyway, fleetingly there was a thought that we would clothe ourselves and I thought -- I could knit myself the most beautiful camisole ever! And nearly bought yarn. But the damn dress saga has moved on a notch so I am safe for the moment.
Then there's the Mystery Stole KAL. Which I am doing because I am newly in love with lace. But since I am newly in love with lace, I have no laceweight. So this is a real conundrum. Should I not do the KAL? Or buy yarn? Eeeeeeek! I'm thinking I should drop out, huh? Talk to me people.
But not about the bridesmaid dresses. Ugh. It's just too horrible for words.
My sister is getting married. I am a bridesmaid and we are having a hellish time finding a dress that will fit all three of her very different bridesmaids: tall, slender and blonde; tiny and well- muscled; sliding into squashy post-childbirth pasta mammahood. Which one am I? Well, I'm the one waving a ladle and inviting you to mangia! mangia! Anyway, fleetingly there was a thought that we would clothe ourselves and I thought -- I could knit myself the most beautiful camisole ever! And nearly bought yarn. But the damn dress saga has moved on a notch so I am safe for the moment.
Then there's the Mystery Stole KAL. Which I am doing because I am newly in love with lace. But since I am newly in love with lace, I have no laceweight. So this is a real conundrum. Should I not do the KAL? Or buy yarn? Eeeeeeek! I'm thinking I should drop out, huh? Talk to me people.
But not about the bridesmaid dresses. Ugh. It's just too horrible for words.
posted by Francesca at 7:56 PM
5 Comments:
Some thoughts -- are there any fellow stashbusters who want to trade you some laceweight? How about some sock yarn -- koigu makes beautiful lace shawls, right? I guess this wouldn't work for the mystery shawl..
There are always exceptions, but the question is, is the shawl NOW more important than the discipline for LATER.
Only you can answer that. We're with you, whatever you decide.
Sleep on it for a day or two.
I got suckered into sewing five bridesmaid dresses (two heavy and well endowed, one medium, one super-skinny and barely endowed- and one eight months pregnant) and a flower girl dress for a friend's wedding two years ago. I hated bubblegum pink for a long time after that. I still refuse to sew anything satin. I have a headache just thinking about it.
And then the ungrateful wretch divorced him a few months ago. If she gets married again (which she has already mentioned in regards to her new boyfriend), there is absolutely NO WAY I'll sew anything.
There is a moral to this- I think- oh yeah- don't make anything for a wedding unless you want to hate it forever more. :) Especially if you get asked to make three of them.
Being asked to be a bridesmaid is tantamount to Chinese Water Torture .. especially if you have a Bridezilla. Luckily, I have managed to avoid -that- particular hell .. and when I got married I had -one- attendant .. my Matron of Honor. And she had her dress made by her grandmother in my colors. I feel for you on the dress situation .. and hope that an easy solution comes about. One thing I noticed is a trend is having the maids wear dresses in a similar shade, but a style that suits their body-type.
Oh wait .. we're supposed to be advising ... erm .. I'd drop out of that KAL for now ... you can always drop back in later, right?
If its the Mystery Stole KAL I'm thinking about, you paid some money to join (not much, but some). So don't actually drop out (so you can save the clues to knit it some day). But don't actually KAL. Unless the swap thing works out.
Oooh, Mary, that's a good idea. I could just hoard all the clues. I didn't, in fact, pay any money. I wonder if I missed something? The knitalong is this:
http://pinklemontwist.blogspot.com/2006/06/mystery-stole-2006.html
and apparently at the very end you can buy the pattern, although I don't get that since you'll already have all the bits of it.
Anyway. Thinking of trying to swap.
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