Monday 18 January 2021

Another Rainbow Jumper For Bertie …….

Tomorrow I have scheduled a post about my first week of Home Schooling, let's just say it's been quite an adventure and an extremely steep learning curve, but I am afraid that due to it's totally knackering nature any crafty posts for the next six weeks (at least) are going to be of  a meager and very simple nature, like today's ........ however, I will really try to make sure there is at least one post of "some sort" on a Monday, this flipping virus aint going to stop me blogging!

I knitted, for the first time in goodness knows how many years (20 plus?) when Bertie asked, in his most pitiful, plaintive way if I could make him a rainbow jumper, that was back in April 2020, a present for his 4th birthday and to be honest, it hasn’t been off his back much since ……

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Then, just before Christmas he told me that he had something very important to tell me ……. his beloved jumper was getting a bit small, could I make him another one, just the same but bigger.

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Fortunately, I think I bought enough wool to knit at least another four jumpers, although I did buy another ball of a darker orange for even more rainbow effect (see on the sleeve cuffs) although it does look pink in a  couple of these pictures, so within about two weeks I’d got all the parts knitted.

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I quite like the knitting part, but I HATE the sewing in of ends and all the seams. I used to be quite good at it once upon a time, but now I am just pants, it’s an art I’ve sadly lost!

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Needless to say, just before Christmas old Bertie was thrilled to be wearing it, but, although I thought I was knitting it with plenty of wiggle room in the body, goodness only knows how, I found that I’d only added about an inch in the length ……. doh, I am sooooo cross with myself.

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So it looks like yet another jumper is on the cards, but not before I start on a cardigan for Iris.  She wants a buttonless cardie in yellow with orange spots, but if I can’t do spots, stripes will do. She even drew it for me!

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I am a little too far gone to knit spots again, but we’ve compromised, I will knit it as best I can, but with added crocheted flowers in yellows and oranges (eBay) that I will scatter all over it once it’s all put together.  I can see it in my minds eye ……. but you might have to wait a couple more weeks to see if I can pull it off  ……..