This week I have been trying to
finish the cardigan I have been knitting for Oxford Yarn Store and trying to
finish the Creative Cables throw – at the time of writing I still haven’t
finished either of them.
I decided to makes some progress
on something by writing a bit more about some of the things I have knitted over
the years. This first piece is a sample
of probably the first multi-coloured yarn that I ever used. I knitted a short-sleeved jumper in about
1984. It was the time when summer yarns
were being promoted for the first time.
I did wear the jumper – I
remember wearing it under a black suit.
I had totally forgotten about it until I found a ball of the yarn. It was called Robin Diamante and was supposedly double knitting yarn – but it is very thin. It was 87% acrylic and 13% nylon. It is described as “lustre crepe”.
This second piece is similar to yarn I used for a plain fluffy scarf. It was mohair but tempered by nylon so it
didn’t shed hairs everywhere. I knitted
it on the train travelling backwards and forwards to Oxford – so that was in
1984 as well.
This third piece is also fluffy. I can’t remember the exact name
of the yarn but it was “Funky Fur” or something like that. I bought it to make a jumper for a little
girl.
She would have been about 4 at the
time and she is 21 now – so it would have been in the summer of
2002. I do like novelty yarns but prefer
it if they don’t make a lot of mess.
They are fun and knitting should be fun.
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