So, obviously yesterday was 9/11, and I totally couldn’t handle it. I hugged D so hard at one point he complained (he normally loves hugs)… It’s a crazy day for me, because we could see the smoke (and we were covered in ash by evening) from across the bay (we, my best friends and I, were all in New Haven, CT at school), so it was pretty tangible, but not tangible like the people who lived IN the city, (although we did go there a good deal). And I found out afterward that my high-school-job-at-the-Gap boss, Ron Gamboa, and his partner Dan, and their 3 year old son, (all of whom I had met, and whose house I’d been at numerous times), was in one of the planes that went into the towers. Geez, I’m tearing up while I write this.
But I went to school with people whose parents/siblings/close friends WERE IN THE TOWERS, or were in med school dealing with the emergency stuff, etc, and so my personal trauma has always felt minor compared to theirs…
Still too much for me to deal with though.
So I went crazy yesterday making things. Like that dress on top.
It’s just like this yellow-bird jumper I made a few weeks ago, but I wanted to try a new piping idea… and it worked! yay!
DISTRACTION!
I decided to make a little bib front, and so I used some straight stitch and a decorative stitch (the asterisks), and some old buttons from my gram, and I crocheted a little trim to give it a bit more dimension (I would have preferred lace, but I really didn’t want to go anywhere yesterday)
it was just chain stitch with a DC in each chain all the way around, using perle cotton, then sewed down with the bib…
I did the same decorative stitch on the pockets, (but no crochet). The Bean really likes the buttons. a lot.
The Bean seemed pretty happy with it, although, since I was using a pattern I made almost a year ago, I added an inch in width to both the front and the back. whadyaknow, it’s about 2 inches too big around… le sigh. SOMEDAY she will grow, right? (actually, she IS getting taller, finally. those blue pants are size 6-12m, and now they’re shorts!)
I blind-hemmed some bias tape for the bottom:
and am quite happy with the finished result… so then, to avoid being alone and watching the news, I also worked on this dress. Non-teaser pics to come soon:
