I finished the Lace Ribbon scarf that I've been working on for (I think) over a year.

(July 12 of last year, based on what I said on Ravelry).

I finished and blocked it Saturday night:



It's Fleece Artist "Sea Wool," a wool and "seacell" (fiber made from algae, don't ask me how they do it) blend. The color is called "dandelion."

I tried it on to see how it looked. Granted, a deep-purple skirt is not the best match with this, but here it is:



When I saw the finished picture, I had to kind of laugh. No, not over the (empty) tea mug sitting on the side table, or the pillowcase that I am still embroidering on (that's what that white thing is) next to it. I had to laugh because the picture looks so very *Victorian* to me - both the way I am sitting (I guess I do tend to sit pretty demurely) and also all the framed family pictures up on the wall all around me.

I got to thinking that I should take another picture, using the 'sepia' filter on my camera, but meh, that would take more work. So instead I used my rather-cheap photo editing software (Pixela, which came with my camera) to crop, make black and white, and blur a little, part of the photo.



Hah. I could almost print that out, frame it, and hang it up with the similar photos of my maternal great-grandparents. (they have a similar slightly blurred effect to them, at least the "casual" photo of the whole family sitting in their parlor). Or it looks a bit like one that might show up in the old, old yearbook of a ladies' seminary...the Botany professor at home in her living room or somesuch.