I am still not able to knit for very long and therefore have made almost no knitting progress. I do have a new hand knit sweater though.
It was my great grandmothers. It is 100% wool. A little bit closer pic.
There are two tags in the back.
The first tag says 100% Wool, hand made in Italy.
The second tag is hand written (by my grandmother) and says 100% wool, Dry Clean, B. Jost (my great grandmother.) I am not sure why there is a second tag. I am fairly certain based on the first tag that my grandmother didn’t knit this sweater, but I am not 100% sure.
I went to Knit Lawrence today. It was a great time as always. I was able to knit on and off without too much trouble which was really really nice. After lingering past when half the group left someone approached the table and said they had yarn to give away. The remaining people each picked up a bag. I picked up two.
The yarn is Red Heart 100% wool. I am not sure that I really need it, but free is free. If anyone out there has a burning desire for some free yarn (Lora?) let me know. The colors I got were greens and a dark cream.
The price tag is pretty amusing.
99 cents for 100% wool, nice!
The cats insist on smelling every new thing that I bring into the house. It literally took the black cat over an hour to sniff every inch of the piano when I brought it home.
Hopefully today was a good sign and I will be knitting more soon.
Does your free wool have a pattern for some groovy “easy-to-knit soft slippers”? Mine does, and I’m thinking of making them in harvest gold…
Emily – It does have that pattern! I hadn’t noticed that. One of the others has a blanket pattern too.
Are you having hand problems?
Steph – I hurt the back of my shoulder (at work I think) and it hurts to do practically everything for any amount of time. I had to give up on folding laundry today. The horror!
Dee Anna
Oh, suck! I hope you heal quickly. Shoulder injuries are the worst!
On the plus side, there is that not being able to fold laundry thing.
I’d take it off your hands! I’ve been wanting to felt for a while. Also I have patterns for socks from my “Knitting for Peace” book which would be made for Russian orphans. Or, a baby sweater for a Mongolian child, maybe?
Lora – You are such a good person. Kim is also organizing hats and mittens for head start kids (in Lawrence I think?) I’ll bring it Wed night.
Steph – Doing the dishes and vacuuming is out too, my house look lovely right now. I am going to pretend it is not usually this messy.
Oooh! Really? I will message Kim about that. I’m interested. Thank you for the yarn! What a steal. Free! I may never need to buy yarn again if this keeps up!