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December 20, 2011 by Tien Chiu

Sadly, you can’t do everything.

The latest issue of Handwoven is out, and they’ve issued their Garment Challenge for this year.  The theme is sleeveless garments – vests, capes, ponchos, ruanas, etc. – and I’m cursing the timing because I have the perfect pattern, one that I was planning to use with the black-and-garnet Celtic braid fabric, and I simply haven’t got time to make it up.  Deadline for entry is April 1, and I’m fully booked on Autumn Splendor until at least mid-February.  Six weeks, sadly, isn’t enough time to weave, fit, and sew a garment, at least not to my standards.

But just for kicks, the pattern I was thinking of making up is Vogue 8674:

Vogue 8674
Vogue 8674

It looks like it has sleeves, but it doesn’t!  It’s a cape over a vest, and would be absolutely perfect for the Garment Challenge.  (And, it’s something I’d make up anyway.)  Which is why I’m so disappointed that I won’t be able to enter.

But, alas, one can’t do everything.

Meanwhile, I have finished knitting one blank for Autumn Splendor.  Three more to go; I’m targeting completing one per day, finishing up on Thursday, so I can have another dye-fest on Friday (which I have off for Christmas).  It’s possible I might take Thursday off as well – depends on how work is going.

Off to work on the book!  I have been reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, and it is giving me all sorts of ideas for organization and tone.  But at this point, I think the most important thing is to quit organizing and write.  So that’s what I’ll do for the next hour or so.

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