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Two things this week for Mel’s Show and Tell:

• I’ve got deck furniture!
• A pic of WIP, Lady Entrelac Shawl. (With the furniture.)

Lady Entrelac is the shawl in the basket on the big table and the chair by the smaller table.

Now I can enjoy the out-of-doors and watch the swans, turtles, ducks, and other wildlife out over my deck.

Now, there will be no need to haunt DH about patio furniture… Maybe I should now start thinking about wood flooring for our upstairs.

I can sew!

Using the instructions from Simply Window Treatments: All You Need to Know to Make Curtains, Shades, and Swags from Sunset I have successfully made Roman Shades for my front door. I had attempted this two years ago, and though serviceable, the shades were not exactly right.

Using the instructions in the book, I measured my front door’s window. I then set about to use the material I had already gotten two years ago in the vain attempt to make shades for most of the front room’s windows.

I then cut the lining, pressed, pinned and sewed it.

Once that was done, I tackled the actual blind material. It was cut a little larger in order to accommodate the insertion of the lining.

Before attaching the lining I sewed in a ribbon with loops in it for the string onto the lining. Once this was done, I sewed the lining into the main material and put the string for the shades through the hoops.

Since I already had attached a Roman Shade to the door before, I already had the hardware installed – well, I had had my brother-in-law install it so I don’t quite remember what was done. I do know they describe it in the book.

Using a staple gun, I attached it to the door where it now hangs.

This wasn’t as hard as you might think – at least not the second time.

I finally finished the stockinette stitch self-striping socks that I have been working on throughout this year. Somehow, finishing them is cathartic, and some, superstitious part of me believes that finishing these socks means I will not carry the badness of 2008 into 2009.

Here are the socks:

Oh, the irony of them being orange and green – colors of fertility in an infertile year. But, I must admit, they are still rather comfy.

The vitals:

• Toe-up, two at a time with magic loop. (I bought two balls of yarn, so, enough leftover yarn for another pair.)
• Stockinette.
• 2×2 ribbing for 1.5 inch cuff.
• Square Toe
• Sockotta Yarn from The Plymouth Italian Collection. (45% Cotton, 40% Superwash Wool, 15% Nylon)

You know, it should not have taken a whole year to knit these. Even I, the world’s slowest knitter, can knit faster than that…

I think in 2009, I’m going to try out entrelac knitting – and maybe even attempt the Lady Eleanor Shawl.