I wrote a little while back about the fact that I currently have a need to knit. Its getting colder here, and yesterday I wore my first woollen jumper (sweater) of the season. I have a jumper that will need to retire this year, as the elbow is wearing through. Its of just a strange enough colour that I won’t be able to match it to make repairs. So to me, that means I need a replacement jumper, and perhaps an additional new one, for the new season… I refuse to buy acrylic jumpers as I just don’t find them warm enough, and for women’s clothing, that’s all you can buy in the shops, unless you’re willing to pay through the nose.<\/p>\n
So knitting a jumper myself, it is. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I was having a browse on the Bendigo Woollen Mills<\/a> website (the home of quality, well-priced yarns except their crepe ones, which I think are simply awful as they just say “school jumper” to me!), and found two yarns that I quite like: Rustic in Delta<\/a> colour, and Melody in Forest<\/a>. I’d actually really prefer the Melody to come in the Delta colour, but Bendigo has never been particularly good on colours. I like the Melody for its lovely smoothness. I’ve never seen this particular yarn in the flesh, but I have seen similar ones in the shops, and they are simply gorgeous.<\/p>\n Then I needed to find a pattern to use, so off to Ravelry<\/a> it was. I began searching through the patterns and almost immediately found and fell in love with this<\/a>. Its called Baby Cables and Big Ones Too<\/a>, by Suvi Simola (I think you’ll need to be a member of Ravelry to view that last link). The pattern is available for purchase through Ravelry. I bought one almost immediately, and now just have to choose which yarn to use with it. Either will work, but part of me likes the blue, and part of me just can’t pass up the smoothness of the Melody yarn. My husband thinks I should purchase both, and whichever one I don’t use for the “replacement” jumper can be used for my “new season” jumper. <\/p>\n He’s a smart man. \ud83d\ude09 (He also thinks that if I get a new jumper, then he’s entitled to one too. I think that’s fair.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote a little while back about the fact that I currently have a need to knit. Its getting colder here, and yesterday I wore my first woollen jumper (sweater) of the season. I have a jumper that will need to retire this year, as the elbow is wearing through. Its of just a strange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}