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Finished, not photographed

Despite Ziggy's halp, I have actually finished a couple of garment projects – I finally got my act together and sewed up my 1960s knitted bolero and did the last bits on my Victorian-lingerie-inspired scrap project. I finished knitting the pieces of the bolero literally years ago, but I always get the fear when it comes to the making-up stage of my knitting. You don't know how bad it is till it's finished, so if it's never finished, it can never be bad! The bolero actually turned out rather nicely, but my style's shifted a bit and I'm not sure I have anything to wear it with now. It's silver-grey and 60s and a lot of what I'm wearing at the mo hearkens back to what I wore in the ’90s – 'whimsigoth' the Young People call it, though we never did – but I'm sure I've got something that the bolero will work with. Or I'll just wear it round the house with things it doesn't work with. Anyway, I have not photographed either yet, so there...

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