Folks,

I’m looking for pictures of items you have knitted using vintage patterns (not Nancy Bush rewriteups or “takes” on vintage but from real vintage patterns.) They can be with or without you in them - but they should not have been previously published on your blog or here on the Vintage KAL. These can be either portraits of you wearing a garment, or of close-ups of a garment detail - you can get as arty as you want. The garment should be knitted from a genuine vintage pattern (not a Nancy Bush or a rewrite) and photos should be clean, well lit, and well composed, but beyond that the sky’s the limit.

The best photo will win a fat hunk of yarny goodness from me, plus your photo will be published here at the Kitchener Bitch at a later date. There’s more brewing, but I can reveal more later.

The catch? I need you to return your photo to me by Friday, September 29. Yes, that’s less than a week away! Ridiculous, I know, but on the off chance that you have a photo… hey, it can’t hurt to ask.
Please don’t post your finished object here - mail it to me at krengren AT hotmail.com. I can take sizes from 300 pixels wide to 1 megabyte large, 72 dpi. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me. Thanks! And I look forward to your submissions!

The whole Kitchener Bitch household is down for the count with a nasty cold, but I thought I’d post some feeble proof that we’re all still alive. Here, then, are some things I’ve been working on between hacking and coughing.

Meet the Blanket of Procrastination. Yes, it’s the log cabin pattern from Mason-Dixon Knitting, and it’s all I can seem to knit in the face of some other very serious knitting deadlines right now. What to do when you’ve got to knit a sweater by the end of the month on size 4 needles? Why, start a queen sized blanket, of course! For added effect I’ve decided to make it entirely out of my own handspun… how’s that for supreme avoidance?

I won’t even post pictures of the Argyle of Doom, as it’s come to be known over here. Let’s just say that my progress on the second side is so negligible as to not deserve publication.

In other news, we had a very strange visitor in the house yesterday. Lisa and I were sitting around when we heard a loud flapping sound and we discovered this guy:

He’s huge - that’s a 16 oz jelly jar he’s under - and the pictures don’t do justice to him. He was bright green - much more so than the pic implies - and his wings looked EXACTLY like young, tender leaves. Here’s Lisa with the bug, just for scale:

Next time I post, hopefully I’ll be able to hold my head up longer so I can actually have knit something more substantial. Until then cheerio and look out for big beautiful bugs!

Underlying Warmth
Camisole in 4 sizes

Materials: 2 ply Beehive Fingering, Patonized – 2 (3, 3, 3) oz.

Needles: Size required to obtain gauge (my guess is size 2)

Measurements: Bust 32 (34, 36, 38)”

Length from top of shoulder: 17 ½” (17 1/2”, 18”, 18”)

Gauge: 8 ½ sts and 10 rows = 1 inch

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