Ravelympic Update, Day 3

...or is it four? Or does it matter? I think not.


I reached ten inches on the skirt of Miss Muffett in Blue last evening. Since I was waiting on the the response from Wisest Sister to The Needle Emergency, and could not continue with the waist and bodice, I started the sleeves.



Behold! Ten inches of skirt and the lace panel insert. Insert will lie in front off center of the finished garment. (See the little gold safety pin, I mean, stitch marker? That's center back.)


The Needle Emergency was resolved today, thanks to Wisest Sister and her post haste ways. I received 2 (yes 2!) size 5 - 24" circular needles with which to continue on my Ravelympics entry for the Baby Dressage event for Team Colorado. Many thanks and great accolades of praise for once again yanking my buns out of the oven in the nick of time, Wisest Sister.


Wisest Sister maintains the needle cache of several ancestors. Well, at least that of our mother and maybe her sisters. One of our aunts was known for going for the new-fangled. I will bet (and I could be wrong here) that this set of circs was Aunt Annie's.


See the hinges.



I am going to use the other, more conventional set. I am betting, since we do not see these for sale by the hundreds, someone figured out, back in the day, that there were some inherent problems with this engineering. I do not want to re-figure those issues out in the middle of this project. Oh, she is the wise one, she is!