Monday, 1 Jan 2007
Happy New Year to all of you! Wishing you peace, tranquility, and everything you desire in 2007 - not to mention a bucket of Koigu to each and every one of you. Without further ado, here are the winners of my Knitty contest! Y’all did so well that I had to draw numbers to select a winner out of the many correct answers.
- Third prize (Lorna’s Laces sock yarn), for the scary high-rise-pants lady, dated 1963: Geogrrl of comment #39!
- Second prize (rosewood sock needles), for the Ingrid Bergman lookalike, dated 1948: Barbara of comment #58!
- First prize (Handmaiden kit), for the toughest photograph - the boy in soakers, dated 1942: Susan of comment #122!
Thanks everyone for participating in this contest. It was great fun for me to do and a pleasure to get acquainted with y’all! I hope I’ll keep seeing you around at the Kitchener Bitch - and I promise to keep you flush with vintage patterns. In fact, as soon as I can get myself together to make some Hoppin’ John today and perhaps another pot of coffee, I’ll be publishing another this evening… stay tuned.
The New Year is finally here, and to ring it in I finally managed to finish something:
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Hourglass Sweater
from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts
Materials: Cash Iroha in Color #80 (Hunter)
Needles: Size 5 (one size smaller than those called for in pattern)
Modifications: tapered sleeves instead of those blasted bell sleeves
A couple of tips… as noted by many who have made the Hourglass Sweater, it GROWS with blocking. A lot. This wasn’t a problem for me for the most part, as I was a little worried I’d picked the wrong size - but it did come out a good deal more casual and sweat-shirt-y rather than sexy catwoman-y, which probably fits my personality better anyway. But still. I do like it and it’s incredibly comfortable. Here it is in action at the party last night:
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I’ll close with a picture of my lovely friend Lisa, showing off her amazing crocheted finger puppets. All I know for sure is that the one-eyed red one is named Bad Larry. Enjoy and have a lovely New Year’s!
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January 1st, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Sweater looks great.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
The sweater came out great - that’s a fab colour on you. I love the way you described the fit. *giggle*
Lisa’s puppets are very, um wow! In a good way.
Happy New Year to you and DH.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:38 pm
What a great sweater! And what a great start to my new year!! Thanks loads!
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Happy new year to you too!
Lisa’s puppets are awesome!
January 4th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Great sweater, that’s what I call an excellent color choice.
The finger puppets are to die for! I just love unusual little things like that.
January 5th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
wow - awesome puppets!! does she sell them? i totally want the purple one with tentacles :)
happy new year!
January 7th, 2007 at 1:03 am
sweater is great! Happy New year!
January 7th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Love the sweater–the colour and the fit are very flattering.
Although we’ve been in touch already, I just wanted to say here how pleased I was to be a winner in the contest. It was fun to rack my brains and figure out the era to which the photos belonged.
Your blog is one of my best sources for vintage patterns–too bad I don’t have more time to knit them.
January 7th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
My, my. I stumbled across the article you wrote for knitty concerning vintage patterns. You’re becoming quite famous, my dear! Drop me a line, I haven’t spoken to you in so long!