I finished knitting a skirt from this nice pattern. I need to get hold of some elastic to sew in, forming a hem, for the waist. Or is a hem only at the lower border of a skirt?

Sewing has never taken much interest in me. Yet my fear of hems may be due to hemispheric imbalance of the brain. Ahem.

How great to find not only a free pattern, not only a skirt pattern, but one knit circularly and using lite Lopi yarn. Not that using lite Lopi is imperative. However, I like the stuff. And I had some spare skeins handy.

I didn’t hem and haw over it. Mayhem did not ensue. Still, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t choose these colors given all choices. They are just what I happened to have enough of, left over from other projects. So be it.

My version is probably the antithesis of sexy. So be it.

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If Samantha decides the skirt is really a cat bed, so be it.

Speaking of, er, cats - did you know that Ernest Hemingway was crazy about them? If I wasn’t able to appreciate his writing, I can anyway appreciate him for his love of felines.