Spring blossom in a sunny garden
These last few days have been glorious and it’s been lovely to spend a bit more time in the garden. I’ve put a first coating of a lime render on the pizza oven to protect it from the weather and it looks much smarter already!
Before rendering
After rendering
It’ll be interesting to see though how the oven stands up to heating again. It might expand and crack the surface as it did when I used it before. I don’t know how the render will react to heat so fingers crossed nothing disastrous happens when I lit the first fires this year!
I’ve also been doing a bit more sewing. I downloaded the free Polly Top pattern from By Hand London. I daringly decided to attempt it using a combination of a navy coloured light cotton jersey and a floral drapey viscose-y woven fabric.
Some more beautiful fabric
The top in progress is shown below. I’ve nearly finished now but I was right in thinking my fabric choice would cause me trouble! I’ve stretched the armholes and neckline while applying the binding to the edge. It doesn’t look too bad though so I’m looking forward to finishing it off soon.
A work in progress :)
It’ll be interesting to use this pattern again using more well behaved fabrics to see how much of a difference it makes. Hopefully getting a bit more practice as applying bias binding will help too so I can attempt it again on a knit fabric.
I’m still knitting away at various WIPs whenever I have time but I have to say, it doesn’t compare with sewing when it comes to instant gratification… or maybe I’m knitting the wrong things! I do have a couple of more simple summery sweater projects planned so might cast on to have a quicker knit when I fancy a break from the more mentally taxing cables of my bellringing jumper!
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