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do you believe in coincidences? I was talking to a friend
a couple of weeks ago – somehow we were discussing who had stashes of what
yarns and turned out she had a couple of cones of that old Bonnie Triola denim
bouclé – I just loved that stuff and did
knit quite a bit of it – I mentioned that I’d really like some more – I was
down to only half a cone left – I had a lace
poncho (worn once) out of it that I was considering (wait for it) unraveling –
OMG is this getting to be a habit? not likely – anyway, my friend shared with
me and sent me a full cone of her denim bouclé, 21 oz of pure treasure! After I received it, she asked what
I would be making and I admitted I was thinking of doing another remake of ‘Hoods
Up’ from KNITWORDS#22 (See blog May 2013) – that attempt was also a denim
cotton yarn, but I ran out and didn’t get the hood done and ended up doing a
button front, so it was no longer ‘Hoods Up’.
Now, the coincidence part, the other day, I got an email from Lynne in
Nova Scotia – her and Nancy have decided to do a knitalong with their group and
have chosen ‘Hoods Up’ for the project!! – anyway – here’s the link to their
blog – http://www.mkkal.blogspot.ca/ - it should be fun to follow along and see
what happens! Why they chose this pattern and how they are going to make
changes – different yarn, different gauge machine, etc… read what they have to
say - I’m going to do mine and maybe
jump in here and there.
The original was made in Honiburd Cotton Rainbow and I would love to make it from that again
also but again another discontinued yarn – there is a limited amount of colours
left, but I do have several part cones of that too and I’m wondering if it
might be a worthwhile contribution to the knitalong to plan a two-colour version of
the hoodie…my original red one weighed in at 17 oz/480g for the first size
(finished bust, 42.5 in) and it is
short-ish/waist length…there is 18.5 oz of the
black which should make it but very close - I’m not going to chance it – besides, probably
the reason I still have the black is because I finally realized that black regular cotton
(unmercerized) is only going to become shades of grey as it is washed and worn.
I could put a chest-high, wide band of the paper bag tan
(love that name!) around, maybe 2 to 3 inches deep and at the top of sleeve, so
it looks like you cut the garment across horizontally and inserted the other
colour…I hate it when you see a garment that looks like you ran out of yarn and
had to add something else to finish it off… but planning it with 2 or 3 colours…hummm… the PBT goes nicely
with the fisherman too…
I was watching my new favourite show, ‘Call the Midwife’
on Netflix – I like it so much, I got the book from the library and am reading
it along with watching an episode or two (okay, or three) per night and am
loving both of them – the book fills in what you miss on the actual show, so I
like that. Anyway, not to spoil things, but it’s nice to see actual knitting
going on in the show, the two needle kind, mostly by Sister Monica Joan – you
might say, she’s my favourite character, but I do really love them all! Maybe
the lead character, Jenny Lee seems like she’s a bit stuffy and uptight, but
she’s the author of the book and she really is.
So, I’m getting toward the end of the second season and
they’re trying to give Sister Monica Joan a bit of a make-work project and she’s
supposed to be knitting squares to be sewn into either baby blankets or an
afghan. There’s a scene with Trixie and Jenny working the two needles,
supposedly helping to knit more squares and then, oh so disappointing – they
are sewing together CROCHETED granny squares!!! Wow! hard to believe BBC has no
one on staff or even that any of the cast didn’t see this major faux pas!
