I booked my plane tickets for my trip to Maine this coming August. I figured since the federal government was kind enough to pay for them since I was fortunate enough to receive a economic stimulus check that now was a good time to go for it. I figure if the country isn’t open by August, we’ve got bigger issues.
Therefore, continuing my silly tradition of making an article of clothing to mark a special occasion, I’m crocheting the Violet Beauregard skirt from The Happy Hooker. This will only be the second time I’ve been to Maine in summer. My father and stepmother live up there, and plane tickets to Maine are cheaper in winter (gee, wonder why?), but since I’m not the one paying for the ticket this time, I figured I’d go for some warm weather for a change.
The original pattern calls for a worsted weight cotton yarn, but I’m looking to use up some stash yarn so I’m doubling up what’s left of a cotton/bamboo sport weight and I’ll mix in the rest of the peachy-pink from the mesh beach cover-up and also see if I can stripe in some odd beige-tan Plymouth Jeannee I bought online for some strange reason. I’m thinking of the Mason-Dixon Knitting theory of using bright, vibrant colors and muted ones together to complement themselves. They call it combining ‘juicy and blah’ if I remember correctly, and you can’t get much more ‘blah’ than tan-beige-slightly-orange-almost-the-color-of-your-skin-but-just-off-enough-to-look-really-odd-if-you-made-it-into-an-article-of-clothing. Stripes against a brighter color might actually work, and if not it’s back to plan A, which is weaving dish towels from it.
I’ll have to line the skirt because I can’t get my gauge tight enough to hide the color of my underthings, but that will make it more likely that I’ll wear it often.