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Pattern: Laurie Lambkin from Nursery Knits by Tessa Watts Russell
Yarn: Bernat Soft Bouclé in #6703 Natural

Here she is! I'd almost forgotten about her when Jenifleur reminded me in one of her comments. Suffice it to say that loopy, splitty yarn is not my definition of yummy, but I really wanted to finish her up before moving on to other projects. I had stashed her body parts in a plastic bag and shoved it in the closet, hoping she would magically sew herself up into a toy. Instead, she fell out of the basket on laundry day, exposing herself to BF, and thus confirming my guilt. *sigh* So all day yesterday (day off) I finished Laurie; here's the whole story.

Lace Camisole Last night I finished the back of the cami and started on the front. I made two changes, shortening the back (and will do so with the front) by 2" for my short torso, and I added eyelets so the ribbon will wind around the cami. Because I didn't have the right needle my ribbing is a little tight, but ya know, the only person who will see me in this is BF, so it's not like he's going to say, "You should've used the #2, schnuckie putzie." I really like the yarn, so I'm going to stash up on all the colors.

Laurie Lambkin Seamin' along. Got the ears and tail done. I'll need a glass of wine for the gusset and the body, and another glass for the stuffing and embroidery. Seaming is almost as hard as knitting with the yarn, all those nubs getting in the way, the yarn splitting, and the most annoying thing of all, which is when it breaks. I have 1 1/4 skeins left, and I will probably knit a simple scarf, just to get rid of it.

I gotta get away from garter and stockinette stitch. My next project has got to have some yarn-overs and inc's and dec's and cables and knit-two-togethers. Interestingly enough, I don't have the urge to knit Charlotte's Web; in my mind I've knit 5 or 6 of them through osmosis of other knitblogger's Charlottes. I'll have knit an additional 2 once JenLa finish theirs, they've been sucked in!

We're sending a birthday box over to Nuremberg sometime in the next week, so I'm going to do some quick knitting. Maybe another 3-cable hat for the birthday boy (BF's bro), some spiral dishrags (BF's mom) and something-for-BF's-dad. I know, a beanie in June? Yes, a beanie in June; I can't think of anything else to knit in 3 days. If I was Wendy (go Wendy go) I would've knit him a sweater with some really complicated intarsia pattern using super yummy yarn, with a day to spare.

But I'm not. So I hope he likes his beanie.

Knitting with bouclé... funny, I got used to it the first night, then I took the project up the following evening and it was like Hello! what's wrong with the yarn again? I finished the other side of the lambkin. And the two gussets:

And the ears and tail (look at the tail!!!):

Blocking this. Should be dry tomorrow. I want to put Laurie together before heading out Thursday for vacation (climbing and camping, of course).