It’s all very well making summer tops, but in Wales, it
rains a lot of the time, and I now needed to think about keeping warm. My
grandmother is a fanatical hand and machine knitter, and she found me a ball of
purple wool and a pattern to make my first stocking stitch cardigan. I can’t remember how many times I undid and
re knitted sections to make sure the tension was correct and to sort out
dropped stitches.
Finally, I got to
sew it up and add buttons, and couldn’t wait to wear it out to a friend’s
birthday party – imagine how disappointed I was to find that despite measuring
tension, and knitting to the pattern, my lovely new cardigan was too big –
should have made a smaller size. Mum to
the rescue – She came up with the idea of a half belt to gather the back of the
cardi and turn it into a jacket – success – everyone loved it and never knew
that it wasn’t planned all along.
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