It’s been a wonky autumn.
Last week’s laundry basket held corduroy pants, thick wool socks, shorts, and a bathing suit.
I didn’t go to Rhinebeck this year and I didn’t really miss it…
My schedule has been a bit erratic, and my making stuff time has been as well, (not to mention my brain), so I’m still sticking to easy mindless things for the moment.
I helped design a functional c. 1959 living room for a museum exhibit and whipped up some pillows with a nice vintage European fabric to match a new but vintage-inspired sofa.
(I forgot to take pics of the finished pillows…)
And made another pillow for myself out of little upholstery samples.
(I don’t give a damn about matching seams – the samples were oddly not quite the same size too – and it’s for one of the various chairs in my work room.)
I’m unraveling as fast as I can since it will soon be too cold to do it outside, though I keep doing it inside, and none of that really makes any sense, but I consider it a cool, not cold, weather activity.
I thought I wanted to use this perfect purply brown for one of my current work-in-progress scarf/shawls, but I’m glad I went with the green – this ended up being more lace than light fingering.
And I’m still oddly attracted to metallic yarn.
This was a short-sleeved sweater that I almost kept as-is, but I still can’t find the correct atmospheric conditions to wear heavier-weight wool short sleeve sweaters (and it didn’t look right with a long-sleeved shirt underneath). So I don’t know what this will be yet – it’s a sport-ish/light worsted weight and I like the muddy pink/sometimes dirty lavender color – I’m a little tempted to hold it with the brown above and make a loose-gauge drapey sweater, but I’m also seeing too many other scarf/shawls I’d like to make.
I’m back to spinning again now that the heat and humidity have gone – trying for at least 15 minutes or so a day – and now I’m getting even more good yarn for scarf/shawl things, but I seem to be unraveling and spinning far more than knitting these days…
ASTITCHMATISM 
Love that pillow!
Thank you!
Your pillow reminds of the one I made out of a bunch of vintage polyester squares I bought in a sack at the thrift store. My seams don’t match either. I’m leaning against that pillow right now and, like you, not giving a damn!