A cowl.... or something like that

I'm going to have to take a better picture!

Okay, you can't see it very well,

So, when a particularly lovely

doula client of mine brought back

one skein of hand spun, hand dyed wool

from the states,

(yarn is so hard to come by here)

I knew I had to do

something special with it for myself.

But what?

Enter Inspiration via JC Handmade and her

knitted cowl pattern.

Simple, I know, but oh so effective with one beautiful skein.

Somehow, with my (nonexistent) maths skills

and pathological avoidance of

s w a t c h e s

The cowl turned out a bit more snug than JC's origional.

But I don't mind.

It works really well pulled up into a kind of head scarf

on windy days, too!

On our recent trip to England, I hardly ever took it off.

Unless my daughter begged it off of me,

which happened more than once.

UPDATE: (Here's the new picture, I had planned on modeling it in the cowl method of wearing, but with a teeshirt on a really hot day it's a bit ridiculous. You can see the beautiful striping, though!)

Purim....again

Another Queen Esther dress -

this one much more carefully constructed than last years!

The bodice is velvet from a skirt I found on the street.

The lace sleeves are from a shirt

handed down by a friend.

The lace was donated by another friend

who cut it off her skirt

and thought I could use it.

The skirt bits I DID buy as oddments from the scrap bin at my local fabric shop.... so the entire outfit cost me 20NIS.

...And the crown she made herself.