Old and new again

First off I need to apologise to those who may have been reading my blog for a while.

I know that what you are about to see, your first response will be - "But I've seen that before...."

And correctly so.

Ok, that's the long story, now for the short.

I'm sure you would remember this wildness, photo here

And I really can't wear scarves, so it became this

Now I did love the back of this, but as for the front, with my body shape, it just did not work.  The problem is not with the pattern, but with my body shape - applause for me as that is a BIG admission from me ☺

Now as a knitter, I have never yet re-worked yarn to make another item. Whatever I knitted was exactly what I was after. So not sure if its age, crochet or something else

The wool was very expensive, but more importantly

I loved the colours!!!!

I wanted to wear this

Hubby knew this and made a suggestion.

Now of course, I poo-pooed the idea.  After all what would he really know???

But I started to do some research

Had a good look around the internet

And then decided to modify a charity crochet project

Using the squares and triangles I had made

And I came up with this

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Yes, a Poncho

So 70's

And you know what???

I'm in love

Yep, hubby got it right

(don't let him know though ☺)

Now the neckline did take me 4 attempts to get it so I was happy with it, so it was not exactly a breeze, but close enough

Finally got an item

I WANT to wear

I am COMFORTABLE in

I feel GOOD in

I just LOVE it

And it is so WARM

Finally!!!!

So you may now be able to spot me in the crowd - ha, ha, ha

Family joke - I'm so short

4ft 11-3/4in, can't even get the 1/4 in needed to say 5ft, they keep measuring me ☺

In crowds no-one can find me ☺ ☺ ☺

Now a couple of things I learnt along the way

• My sewing up of an item is VERY secure, a few mishaps were had in undoing, but were fixed
• I prefer to crochet items together rather than sew - just a personal preference, a bit of the look and the convenience
• And this wool, both Colinette and Bendigo Luxury, held up well to the re-working, mostly 3 times re-worked

Bye for now