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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Jul 26 2015 : 05:22:33 AM
Last December, we went to Iceland after Christmas for a week and had a wonderful time. They raise a lot of beautiful long haired sheep and make gorgeous woolen sweaters, hats, gloves, socks etc. There are also many stores that sell skeins of beautiful wool. As a beginner knitter, I was like a child lost in a candy shop! Here is my finished wool vest that I made from three colors. It was a simple pattern that I combined with a previous pattern and then made up a block color idea and went for it. Here is the result.
Icelandic wool is heavy and quite warm so there won't be many days here in Florida to wear this . I am pairing it with a cotton long sleeve shirt to hopefully make it so I don't roast when I wear it! With temperatures in the 90+ everyday and awful humidity, it seems like a far off distant idea that it will ever be cool enough come 2016 to even wear this thing. But I hope so!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Aug 02 2015 : 12:53:22 PM
Winnie,
That is BEE-YOU-TEE-FUL! I envy those of you who knit and/or crochet because I don't. I just don't have time, right now, to learn another thing!
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jul 27 2015 : 11:24:08 AM
Winnie!!!!! Absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the color combination. Thanks for sharing.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| Marcy |
Posted - Jul 27 2015 : 09:29:07 AM
It's absolutely beautiful! I love the colors you chose.
hugs,
Marcy
Farmgirl #170
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Jul 27 2015 : 05:57:29 AM
Thank-you all for your sweet comments! This sweater is truly a beginner level because it just uses the basic knit and purl stitches, and then adding or decreasing a stitch to make the shape. Plus, I made the decision to use size 10 needles so that the stitches would be loose. Plus, I like the look of the large stitch for this wooly yarn. I enjoyed making up the idea and putting it all together. Somehow the process of creating something out of what I have on hand always appeals to me and pushes me to put that thinking cap on and get creative.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014 |
| mbenton16 |
Posted - Jul 26 2015 : 8:24:13 PM
Wow Winnie I am really impressed! Maryellen
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jul 26 2015 : 07:27:41 AM
Love your sweater Winnie! I can't believe you are a beginner! You did a beautiful job on it. I am looking forward to sweater season after a hot and sticky summer here in the Chicago area!
Keep knitting & sharing!
Dawn in IL |
| churunga |
Posted - Jul 26 2015 : 06:53:32 AM
Winnie and Sara,
Come visit me in Minnesota anytime in the winter and wear them up here. It is said that here in Minnesota we have nine months of winter and three months of poor sledding.
Marie, Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
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| MaryJane |
Posted - Jul 26 2015 : 05:50:09 AM
That combo is so appealing. We're working on the Oct/Nov issue of the magazine right now and my daughter keeps saying that autumn is her favorite season because of things like cozy warm sweaters. I'll have to make sure she sees this!
MaryJane, Farmgirl #1 Plowin' Thru ~ giving aprons a good wrap for 45 years and counting ~
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jul 26 2015 : 05:43:55 AM
Winnie, your sweater is beautiful. Well done. You do have an eye for color and pattern. The shirt is a perfect match.
I like sweaters, but like you I don't have many days to wear them, so I only have a few that I wear year after year. Light weight un-lined jackets are the way to go here. They're perfect for layering.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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