I think everyone was impressed with the 2 TLR stole/shawls that I made for my niece's wedding this coming weekend - hope to get a 'live' photo of her which I will post later. I have promised to write up the pattern for this soon, hopefully before Christmas and will post here when it's ready.
It was
great to see Jane Niemi's (blue-ribbon-winner at the state fair) version of 'Primitive'
from Knitwords #19, Winter, 2001 - she modelled it in the style show at Rocking Horse Farm - goes to show how enduring our fashions are!
In fact, she inspired me to dig out mine - I may wear it to the Maritime
seminar in Charlottetown next weekend - here's an excerpt from my #19
editorial:
During workshops,
many times someone will say to me, 'This is probably a stupid question, but...'
and I always say there is no stupid question, except a knitter who knows who I
am, and asks me if I knit what I am wearing. Duh!!! How could I possibly show
up and act like an expert if I don't have the confidence to make my own
wardrobe? On this trip [the Maritime Machine Knitters Seminar in Wolfville,
Nova Scotia], I was wearing our cover garment, 'Primitive' and got many rave
reviews. One of the knitters threw in
this question as a joke and I answered
facetiously, 'No, I got it at the Wal-Mart. They have it in other colourways
too. There is a red, white and blue version.' One of the husbands in the group
quickly threw in, 'yes, but can you get the stripes vertical instead of
horizontal?'I did a bunch of knitting between the weddings and workshops...Rhiana's turquoise dress with ruffles; 2 WCD dresses for sister Janet (even I loved the 'watercolours' one); LSA in royal WCD for niece/goddaughter Lauren (she wore it for her post-wedding brunch - sorry for the poor photo - new camera and I haven't had enough experience yet;-)); and 2 TLR stoles for niece/next bride, Karen...