Monthly Archives: July 2007

Oh I am so lucky

Awhile ago I won a contest, I was Margene’s 29,000 commenter and today the package was dropped (loudly) at our doorstep, oh what a treat!

Margene is so generous and the treat started with the first cut of the tape with the first whiff of the content, it smells really lovely and looks even better:

Margene’s Generosity

The star is of course Iggy Pop and I must tell you this yarn is even better in person than in its photos, I am so lucky. It has beautiful colours and is oh so soft, a real pleasure, I will have to knit it soon I think!

The soft beautiful Iggy Pop

I was coveting The Woolen Rabbit Yarns for a long time now, but managed to be good and stick to my yarn diet (unlike my real diet, oooysh).

The source of the nice whiff is a bar of soap of Blessed Juno that smells delicious and the other treats are a nice lip balm and cuticle bar. A pattern for Whisper Rib and Shepherd’s Lace Socks of Anne Carroll that I will have to knit soon, Some good looking slightly sinful (as the label declares it) Wild Huckleberry Jam from the Utah Shakespearean Festival – I think I am lucky I commented that fortunate comment just before Margene went to that festival in the south of Utah! and last but not least a Clover Yarn Cutter Pendant!

Thank you Margene you are very generous and your blog is a treat!

Cardigans from the Past

My friend Luly from Dublin sent me photos of a red cardigan I knitted for her quite a long time ago (I think it was 1984):

Red Cardigan knitted in 1984

She still wears it but not too often as she finds it too warm these days. I think you can see she likes the cardigan and take good care of it:

Detail of the neck - 1984 Red Cardigan

If you think this one is old what will you think about this one:

Great grandmother cardigan

I love the details of this one:

Neck detail of great grandmother cardigan

Here are the front and back:

Front of great grandmother cardigan Back of great grandmother cardigan

I think Luly is an excellent care taker of knitted treasures, don’t you agree?

She does not know when her great grandmother knitted this lovely cardigan but the woman died around 1954 or 1955 so we all agree this cardigan is old, right?