In an effort to keep my innate Holiday Grinchiness at bay, I'm setting myself a challenge for the day. Cos, sweeties, it is so very ugly here. It snowed for over 24 hours. It's been grey and sun-less for far too many days. I do not do well in Grey & Sunless. It snowed way more than Midlanders are used to, and it's scary to even THINK of being out on the road (in the first 8 hours of just minor snowing there were 45 wrecks, so I can only imagine what it must have been like since then. We live fairly close to a fire station and so can hear the sirens over and over and over). Much of the problem is that people who don't know how to drive on wet pavement have huge trucks that were bought to demonstrate their fierce tough power and rockin'
cojones, so it's a terror out there. Good thing everything closed early yesterday and will remain closed today. Maybe everyone will stay home and eat themselves into a tryptophan coma until everything melts (although that may be a myth, as you can see if you read Wikipedia's entry on
Postprandial Somnolence. And don't you just know someone had fun coming up with that fabulous title?)
Anyway. The Challenge. The challenge I've chosen to accept (since it was, um, my own idea, making it hard to opt out, you know?) is to make a pair of wrist warmers/wristlets/arm warmers from the sleeves of a severely stained-despite-rigorous-laundering waffle-weave henley. Here they are:
Here's my inspiration--some that I bought on sale in various styles:
I don't know if I'll add a thumb part or just cut a slit. I did do a little altering on a Free People shirt, so I think this will work. I think I've shown it before--I got it at the consignment shop, dyed it and stitched it. The sleeves are very long and very tight, and they come down over my hands, and I thought it would be cool to have my thumbs free. So Friday night at Starbucks, as we had a really great conversation with one of The EGE's former students and his uncle and cousins who'd just come in to visit from Mexico, where the cousins had never seen snow and so were delighted with the little bit that had fallen (since then there've been several inches, and I can only imagine how thrilled those girls must be today) and the uncle, who's traveled all over the world and was just delightful (and spoke English really well, much to the astonishment of the former student/nephew, who said he didn't even know his uncle spoke English at all)--ANYWAY: I did this:
And so now I'm going to tackle these. And I'm telling you about it so I'll be forced to post progress shots, giving me a goal for the day.
Hope you're doing something fun, in whatever guise it appears to you~~XO
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If it's any consolation:
We have a ritual for the first snow of the year, up here in the land of Four Distinct and Radically Different Seasons. Everybody freaks and says "what IS this stuff??!!" like it's a personal affront that has never ever happened before in living memory, and completely forgets how to drive.
Marilyn the Artist Appreciator
I thought you lived in Texas, land of heat and humidity! Hmmm, now I understand your ability to layer those gorgeous clothes you creatively alter.
I live in Sunny South Florida where it is now a blazing 78 degrees and I sit here posting in a tank top. Oh, and when we took the puppy to the dog park this morning, I got a little sunburn on my nose.. go figure..
As a former Philadelphia girl who walked or took public transportation everywhere, I gotta say I don't miss the gray sky or white stuff much at all.
Stay warm dear Rice, it'll all disappear soon.
It's 64*F and sunny in Los Angeles!!! Thank all gods, big and small.
I love that, Marilyn--I think that's what happens here, too. Adrian, I am FILLED with envy. 85 is my ideal temperature, so I'd be sitting there hoping it got just a tiny bit warmer. But even the relatively cool LA sounds great because THERE IS SUN. Sigh. Days here without any.
Wrist warmers seem like a great project. Not too much fitting and lots of possibilities for embellishment.
I have been maybe ruining a perfectly good drawing. I think I posted it before ruining on my fb page. I am not upset, I am having fun.
Also last night I created a secret alphabet for my art journal which was fun. I won't be posting that, haha.
And also started a page of personal symbols in the back of my art journal. I only have feather and house so far, but it is fun.
Gawd, I didn't reread that last comment. A bit overuse of 'fun', do you think?
What would it be like if you made the hand/finger section a little less long?
Would you have more use of your fingers then?
Going on the photographs it looks like the length hand warmers might get in the way of your stitching productivity. I know I need them shorter.
Say it ain't so...
Drivers are more cautious and less over-horsed here in England, but there are still plenty of accidents in the snow. Steering into the skid is contra-intuitive for most people.
Very wise to walk if you can.
There's no snow here in California, only cold fog.
Handwarmers are a crucial part of my wardrobe; if my wrists and hands are cold, not only do they hurt, but the rest of me is cold too. I may have to get out the needles, get someone who can see tiny things load them up with thread for me, and make a few pairs of handwarmers for myself. I prefer them with no finger holes, as then I can play my flute.
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