Just before Christmas I had a hospital appointment for my sinuses which have never been the same after the impacted wisdom tooth extractions back in 2015! Anyway right across from the hospital is Kemps wool shop see this post, (I've been back many times since then.)
I had no intention of buying anything because as you all know I’m stash-busting and have a mere 23,044 grams of yarn to use up before I can even think of buying more. My friend Mary however doesn’t have that dilemma and did intend to buy, I was only there for moral support and to give advice about colour, brand, you get the picture.
I browsed as you do
and was sticking to my resolve, by the time Mary’s basket was full I wasn’t
even tempted in fact I was feeling quite smug, and then I looked up. There right in front of my eyes was a
gorgeous sweater that someone had knitted, the pattern and yarn information was
pinned to the sweater, what great advertising! Who could resist I know I
couldn’t before you could say stash busting I had picked up and bought 6 balls
of the yarn and pattern to make it. Now
that’s what I call an impulse buy I do it all the time and I usually live to
regret it.
The yarn in question was Sirdar Aura and it was quite expensive I have never paid that much for yarn!
I’ve just retired for goodness sake what was I thinking, I can’t do things like
that I have to watch the pennies. As
soon as I got home I started knitting it and it was chunky
yarn so it worked up quickly but look...
The yarn was twisting as I worked with it and because it was twisting, the yarn strand was getting thinner and making an uneven texture so I had to stop every couple of rows and twist in the opposite direction to correct it, what a pain!
On the plus side the pattern was easy and I can recommend it
I will use it again and again because there are children’s sizes too.
It took me 10 days to make the sweater and as I was knitting
it I was wishing that I had bought the same colourway as the one I had seen in
the shop. Which was Nico I had bought Rhythm I am never satisfied when
making something for myself I should have known I wouldn’t be happy with it.
Why?
- It’s a chunky sweater I have hot flushes every hour anyway I have them every 5 minutes when wearing this sweater.
- I don’t like the green in the colourway there’s too much of it you can’t tell when it’s wound in the ball. (It's much brighter in real life)
- It has wool in it so it scratches even though it’s lovely and soft so I have to wear a long sleeved cotton top under it.
- It makes me look fatter than I already am I put half a stone on over Christmas says she hanging her head in shame.
Will I wear it? yes! I will have to after what I paid for it
lets hope for freezing cold weather then I will be nice and cosy inside my
chunky scratchy sweater.
If I ever mention that I want to make a sweater for myself again PLEASE STOP ME!
Another plus
This was what was left
And I made this just to use it up
An easy crochet scarf and the yarn didn’t twist while I was crocheting it! I will tell you how I made it if you want to know AND I have never had it off my neck, it’s multi colour so goes with lots of outfits, it doesn’t scratch now how is that possible when the sweater does, I used up the entre 600 grams of yarn for the sweater and scarf, so no stash to carry over, see there’s always some positives.
An easy crochet scarf and the yarn didn’t twist while I was crocheting it! I will tell you how I made it if you want to know AND I have never had it off my neck, it’s multi colour so goes with lots of outfits, it doesn’t scratch now how is that possible when the sweater does, I used up the entre 600 grams of yarn for the sweater and scarf, so no stash to carry over, see there’s always some positives.
2017 is going to be the year of positives let's find something positive in every situation.😊
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