2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I really like the jumper 🙂

Baileys_Babe

Lovely jumper @Cherryfudge

CAFCGirl

Looks ruddy lovely @Cherryfudge

maddiemay

The jumper looks great @Cherryfudge, well worth all your time spent sorting it out.

PipneyJane

Cherryfudge said:

I’ve been knitting and have finally finished the jumper I needed advice on long ago, possibly last spring. This started off as cable stitch but I used a different wool which was too dark and fuzzy so I knitted it in stocking stitch. When I’d nearly finished the front I realised I wasn’t going to have enough yarn despite buying the right weight. It was after talking it through with you all that I discovered that 100g chunky in one brand can be 150m and in another, more like 200m. There followed an online hunt in which I discovered that yarn bought 6 years ago is still obtainable but not in the colour I needed. Then came the saga of how to add it in and I’m afraid I went against advice and did vertical stripes, so it would look as though I intended it (🤣). It took ages, but I’m relieved to say DH likes it and it fits him… and there is the tiniest ball - 3g! - left of the original yarn.

@Cherryfudge, that jumper looks beautiful.  The changes between the colours are very even.  Well done!

- Pip

PipneyJane

Girls, I have a difficult question for you to answer - does anyone know of a charity which takes yarn and volunteers knit it up into things?  Preferably somewhere in the South East of England.

I may have mentioned that I have a friend with dementia, who used to be a knitter. (Knitting was one of the first things to go.) She's deteriorated so much in the last 2 years that she's now been placed into a care home and her husband is clearing out her stash.  He wants it to go somewhere useful.

Many thanks.

Pip

Liverpool_Anne

@Cherryfudge that jumper is great, I really like it.
@maryb, yes lemon arrange pie and I also thought of cottage and shepherd's pie but I suppose in those cases the filling is covered with something so maybe that's what the difference is
Edit should say meringue pie autocorrect strikes again

MrsCD

The jumper looks great! @Cherryfudge

prepareathome

@Cherryfudge That jumper is fabulous, its unique but am sure others will be asking where he got it as it looks as if it was bought from a designer label, you might find yourself being asked do you take orders.   really, really love it.

PipneyJane 

I would say try freecycle, Next Door etc - put posts on places like that to see if any knitters for charities are members, it's how I gave away all my stash - someone on Freegle took it all to share among her group that knits for local animal rescues, some to use to make clothes for them and some to make into gifts to sell to raise money.  Also, some went to someone who knits baby things for local maternity hospitals - hats, mitts, cardis etc, obviously that depends if suitable yarn.

Laura_Elsewhere

Can I join in with the chorus, too- @Cherryfudge, that jumper looks superb and nobody would *ever* guess it wasn't designed from the start like that. And seconding Pip's comment re: the even changes of colour - my intarsia stitches pull horribly, but you have one heck of a talent there. I'm envious...