Grainline Linden top

A while ago I promised a photo of my Grainline Linden top and here it is.

There are few things you need to know about this pattern. 

First there is a lot of ease in it. 

Probably designed for sweatshirt fabric or as a layer, although this loose bamboo knit version was great for a home day for me. I made a 12 which fit my measurements exactly and this is the fit. 

In a class I am doing for beginners with this pattern students tried on samples and most of the younger women are making a 4 when their measurements are more 8-10. 

Consider that.

As you can see the neckband is quite narrow, fine, but for beginners I am having them it twice as wide because getting used to stretching a neckband with your hands to fit the neckline first out is hard and I want them to have a success.

Also it should be noted that this is a raglan T shirt, something that we haven't seen too much of lately. Raglans are really the most comfortable sleeve shape, good if you have sloped shoulders, and easiest to put on children, and those with mobility issues. Worth remembering. I always sew raglans for babies.

Not too much else to say except this picture is taken on my daughter's back deck and you can see the state of the landscape around here.

I am also confirming my status as the sewer with the least staged pictures on the internet, notice the sock feet. In Canada we take our shoes off the minute we get in a house and Canadian homes usually have entries full of random piles of shoes. It is considered sort of rude to leave your shoes on even in the summer. A by product of all the slush, snow and salt we would otherwise track in I guess much of the year.

I am wearing some Barb pants by Stylearc in this shot too if you are interested. As well as about 20 extra pounds I see, proving that those second helpings (I have the appetite of a 14 year old boy, although I do understand I am not a 14 year old boy) do take residence.

Going to do something about that some day.

Now off the finish the chair project. Have to get that in the out basket today or else.

Flypaper thoughts Fall edition

• OK I admit it
• We are into fall
• No going back until we go through the ice and snow thing
• Went with my husband overnight to a job site he had to check up on in the country
• "If you go for a walk, stay on the roads"
• There's the bears
• Of course the coyotes
• And it is hunting season
• In rural Nova Scotia that means stay inside
• The hunters apparently are not able to distinguish a tall woman in a shocking pink jacket from a deer
• Something I am sure the bears and coyotes can do
• In case you think I am one of those bloggers who talks about sewing but doesn't actually do it
• That is not the case
• The spouse has taken over supervision of the late-father-in-law's chair
• You know the sturdy model A Lazy boy the FIL sat in for 40 years
• The one I have been trying to drag to the curb ever since I inherited it
• Apparently everyone's favourite most comfortable chair
• This thing has 87 parts and each part has 9000 staples
• I had plans to sew silk pants this weekend
• Instead I have been working for a foreman who says things like
• "You sewed the curved piece to the straight piece instead of the straight piece to the curved piece"
• I am not enjoying this
• I have been trying to sneak the 87 parts to the curb
• Nothing doing
• Laugh of the weekend was "Now we know how we can do this we can do this again if we want another colour"
• Yes well
• The next wife can do that
• This one is about to down tools
• Reminds me of someone who I used to work with
• He was a genius, someone you stood in awe of
• He had doing absolutely nothing down to a fine art
• It actually takes a lot of effort and brains to never do anything at work for an entire career
• How many of us could actually do that?
• So easy to slip up and forget and complete an action item
• So easy to make the call at least out of boredom
• It takes a tremendous amount of self-control to never lift a finger for decades
• Whenever you cornered this guy with a task he would say
• "I would rather stick needles in my eyes than do that"
• I realize now he was speaking of upholstery 
• Hunting season makes me think of a woman I knew in Newfoundland
• Her husband was RCMP in the middle of nowhere
• Which no offense covers a fair amount of that province
• Every fall they would go the pair of them into the woods
• To hunt moose
• "I cut her in half and tie one half of the moose to me and the other half to Joan and we haul her out"
• The rest of the time Joan sold embroidery machines
• When I am gone no one in the family will have known folks like that
• Best the kids are going to do is one day know someone who keeps five urban chickens and blogs about it
• Yes I am aware of the irony 
• Speaking of hunting
• Which is worse you think?
• The sight of mouse poop behind the bed or the sight of a nice little mouse in a trap
• Who can blame them it's getting cold outside
• Those crack canine operators around here are falling down on the job
• Least they could have done is wake up
• I mean I can cut cheese up ten miles away and they hear it
• You know silk pants would have been pretty nice this weekend
• It's getting cold outside

Lobster pots in a yard in rural Nova Scotia