Friday Senses

  

Dress: Old Navy, Tights: Target, Boots: UrbanOg, Necklace: Francesca's Collections, Bracelet: Thrifted

Making: two pretty necklaces from I Spy DIY

Seeing:  A lost dog in our backyard. 

Hearing: My husband happily taking calls, fixing computer problems.

Smelling: Coffee, it's always around in the morning.

Tasting: That chocolate cake. I haven't stopped.

Feeling: Pain, my feet aren't loving my ever-softening point shoes. I prefer hard ones I can pop right up in!

Reading: All Wound Up By: Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee

Loving: DIY day at my household. My mom and husband learned to knit this week!

Wishing: For May to go by slowly. Life is too fast!

Knit.Knit.

 

 Over the past week I have been working on these shorts. Well, it was over a few weeks because I desperately messed up the first pair. Two balls of yarn, had to be unknit and wound back up, so I could start again. I didn't have a pattern to read. But here is what I used for a guideline.

What I did was measure the widest part of my hip. Yep, you have to actually look at the number (I always hide from it) and I cast on and measured until it was wide enough. Then I worked it 5 rows knit, 5 rows purl and repeated that for about 7 or 8 rows then on the 3 row of the purled section I k2tog every tenth stitch to create a waist. I continued this until they were long enough and then cast off. I sewed the bottom together to create the crotch and then I crocheted a chain and sewed that into the top of the shorts to keep the waist cinched. I know it is a far cry from a pattern but if you are like me. First, become really overwhelmed, then just try it. When your first attempt doesn't work, your second one probably will.

**two disclaimers.

1) I just got home from 3 hours of dance when these were taken. 

2) I know this is not a pattern, I'm sorry. I looked long and hard for a pattern. They aren't easy to come by.