Well it's been a long time since I last posted, so long I daren't even look at the date of the previous post, but here I am, still busy with the knitting needles, and the sewing machine is still idle. So in the short term, this will be a knitting blog, and will at some point in the not too distant future transform itself into a knitting and sewing blog.
We have just spent a few days staying with with my brother, and while we were there he presented me with a repair job - a jumper I made for him, which was the third or fourth jumper I ever made. It had come unravelled at the front of the neck and around one of the cuffs, so I have already repaired the worst damage. The other cuff is hanging on by a thread, and the bottom edge of the back and front is also looking fragile, so I shall reinforce all along the casting on. Apart from that, the jumper is in good shape and still has plenty of wear in it. There is a photo of my brother wearing the jumper, taken in 1967, a mere 57 years ago. Taking into account that I had already been knitting a few years when I made it, I am now going to ignore the fact that telling you makes me feel exceedingly ancient, and just blurt out that it is now some 63 years since I learnt to knit.
Here is my latest project, a cardigan for the autumn, or earlier if summer never arrives, in proper old lady tweedy shades of dark red. I had a dickens of a job with the camera, which seemed to go into a flat panic trying to capture the correct shades, but this photo is more or less accurate. I am using two different yarns - a dark red/brown with occasional coloured flecks (on the right hand needle) and a multi coloured yarn which puts in shades of mauve, grey, pink, brown, maroon and rust (on the left). I have just reached the stage where I shall need to go shopping for buttons, so I can keep all that excitement for the next post. Let's hope I find the perfect match!
