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Hand-dyed, hand-spun, hand-knitted pinwheel vest

Posted on 01/09/2008 by Barb | Comments (3)
Filed under : Dyeing, Knitting, Spinning

We celebrated "second Christmas" on Sunday since Steph wasn't able to make it home from Boston for "real" Christmas.She's been a busy girl with work and school, but she still had time to complete some pretty fantastic homemade Christmas gifts. I was left slack-jawed when I opened my gift from her. She had made me an amazing pinwheel vest, using a combination of commercial yarn and her own hand-dyed, hand-spun! Andrea commented earlier in this blog that I might have teared up a little. She's right, I'm a wuss about stuff like that. And I know how incredibly many hours she put into that gift. I absolutely love it!

She used a free pattern from Elann as her starting point, then made it into a vest.

I just love it! I wore it yesterday and it made quite an impression on people at work, many of whom are knitters themselves.

We had our after-work knitting group last night and I added a few more inches to the Knit a Mile Project. So I'm up to maybe 325 yards done. It was fun to see what other people were working on, I wish I had taken some pictures. We had a needlepointer there, and a crocheter, in addition to a half-dozen knitters. One of the women brought her 7th grade daughter who does some crocheting already and is now wanting to learn to knit. I love it ...

3 Comments

I'm not even a vest-wearer, but that is amazing! Great colors, great shape!

- said Alarid (01/09/2008, 9:52 AM)

I don't think my Mom mentioned this, but this was supposed to be a sweater and my sister ran out of yarn. I'm not much of a vest person either, but when I imagine sleeves on this this particular item, I actually think it's better without them.

- said andrea (01/09/2008, 9:52 AM)

Thank you for the comments. I was so thrilled with this gift. I had actually downloaded that very pattern but hadn't done anything with it yet.

- said Mom (01/09/2008, 9:52 AM)