April | 2018 | liz-o-matic

So…. I totally had to look up what 19 was in Roman numerals 😦 I may have to re-think my numbering system….

But at any rate! Here’s what I’ve been working on!

Unfortunately, in the case of my knitting not only has no progress been made…. there has actually been negative progress! That’s right mere rows before coming to the end of my cowl I decided I didn’t like my interpretation of the pattern and ripped it almost back to the beginning 😦

I’m trying again to more closely follow the pattern (despite it making NO sense) just to see how it turns out….but, as you can imagine I haven’t really gotten too in to it

HOWEVER! The wheels are turning on a new summer sweater!!

On the other hand, I’ve been hard at work and have almost completed my ninth and tenth Grail t-shirt! These ones will both involve some pattern hacking on the original…. and fit in with my Make Nine plan- BONUS!

My Ginger jeans took a bit of a back burner when I decided I wanted the somewhat immediate gratification of a Grail t-shirt….. but I’m hoping to get back to them very soon!

Which brings us to Me Made May!! I’ll be participating again…. getting in just under the wire (per usually)….

I, Liz of Liz-o-matic, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-May ’18. I endeavor to wear at least one visible me made item every day for the month of May 2018.

Last year I had a handful of me made underwear days…. this year my goal is to limit it to only one day! I’m also going to try to be better about getting a photo EVERY day!

I actually started this project last fall. I finished everything except hemming when the weather turned cold….. and then lost any and all interest in finishing it, but with the weather warming back up**… why not?!

This is my third crack at the Moneta…. and I feel I may have finally worked the kinks out! 😀

I’ve made a couple more tweaks and adjustments. The main one, which I feel has helped the fit for me, is I graded the shoulders down to a size M. This is increasingly becoming a fairly necessary adjustment for me. I could learn to do a proper narrow shoulder adjustment…. but, eh….. this is working so far 😉

The other adjustment was finishing the sleeves and neck with a band, a la my beloved Grail t-shirt, as opposed to just turning it under. I used zigzag stitching throughout- I have given up trying to make friends with the Twin Needle…. it is the devil and I will have no part of it!

The fabric is an Art Gallery print (I’m pretty sure?) from my local fabric store… every time I go in there it takes all my strength to not walk out with one of each of their knit fabrics!!

Keen eyed observers will notice there is a very subtle direction to the print (one of the flowers has a stem!)…. even keener eyed observes will note that despite being aware of the directionality of the print I still managed to cut one of the skirt panels upside down! *face palm* Eh….at least it’s not as bad as upside down deer heads!

I was stepping a bit outside my comfort zone with this one….not only is it rocking a fairly busy pattern, but it has (just a bit) of neon!! My firm opinion of neon is it wasn’t a good look in the 80’s/early 90’s and 25-35 years has not improved it!! ….this actually extends to ALL fashion from that time period- stop trying to bring it back! *Shakes fist at young teens, before yelling at them to get off my lawn*

But it must look good on me, because I was getting all the compliments when I wore it out the first time! Which is good, because I’m pretty sure I have enough leftover to make a t-shirt 😀

** These were all LIES- the temperature has dropped and yesterday it actually snowed 😥