Fall Trend: Winter Florals

So once again I killed two birds with one stone. This time winter florals made up in the seasons most popular trend, the tie neck blouse. I made this blouse using NL6831, View D . I finished this blouse about two months ago and I'm just now getting around to showing it. I made used a a beautiful Nanette Lepore silk charmeuse I found at Mood Fabrics. As seen as I saw the fabric I immediately knew what I wanted to make. I didn't like the sleeve options offered for the blouse so instead I used the puffed sleeves from McCall 5708 . I actually like it better with the short puffed sleeves. I love this pattern so much that I am definitely going to make this blouse again. I mean, you can never have too many blouses.

I also knitted this thin lace scarf from Vogue Knitting Presents Debbie Bliss using Jo Sharp's Silkroad DK Tweed. It was similar to Debbie Bliss's recommended yarn, but cheaper and more yardage. This was a real quick knit. It only took me 4 days and that's saying a lot since I feel like I'm the slowest knitter in the world. I was happy that I was able to get it done so quick because I was able to wear the scarf before the weather in NY really got chilly. I made the scarf longer than the instruction called for because I wanted to completely use the two balls of yarn I purchased just for the project.

Now I'm revisiting the Rusted Root knitting pattern. I started last week and now I've finally gotten to the torso. The good thing about doing this pattern now is when I'm done it will actually fit. whoohoo I checked the gauge. lololol I'm also still working on the Kasia skirt from Burdastyle. I'm almost done I just can't ssem to get myself to the machine to complete the skirt, which is bad because I really want to wear it. lolololololol

I'm going to try to post more often now that my sewing mojo is staring to rev up again. I already saw a blouse in the October issue of Burda that I'm dying to make out of some purple cotton I have in my stash.

See yall later.