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Anne N. Stoddard | East Northport, New York |
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Project: EZ’s square baby blanket with a lace edging from Barbara Walker. Yarn: A variety of yarns that are leftovers and also some yarns that I just loved when I bought them, but were not enough to make anything, I just bought the balls/skeins because I couldn’t help myself :-) Notes: Some as long as 27 years (when my Mary was born) and some as recent as last year (2002). Starting: On Tuesday 1/21/03 | |
Barbara Solarz | Culver City, CA |
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Project: Ginny’s Cardigan by Medrith Glover Yarn: True stash yarn. I had a couple of “blendy” projects designed by my LYS that were UFO’s. A blendy project is a project whereby you have one or two balls of different kinds of novelty/designer yarns, enough different yarns/balls to make one sweater. You knit holding two strands of two different yarns; after two rows, you drop one strand of one of the yarns, add a different yarn, and continue for another two rows when you drop the second yarn, add a different yarn, continue knitting and etc. So you continuously have two different strands but the strands keep changing and their “partner” yarns keep changing. I am using this technique modified with the Ginny's Cardigan pattern. It’s amazing how really diverse novelty yarns will come together “neutrally” in a project like this. It also satisfies yarn collector fever, as in, “I must have one ball of each even if I can't knit anything with it.” This way, you can. Notes: Unknown vintage, but as the above describes, it doesn't really matter. . . Starting: Week of January 20 (It **was** UFO night, after all. . .) | |
Betsey from the Coast of Maine | Brunswick, Maine |
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Project: I’ve really gotten the itch to knit the Einstein Coat from Sally Melville’s The Knitting Experience. A coat has been high on my list for too long. After much “researching,” planning, swatching & numerous other excuses to get on with it, I bought the book, found “my coat,” & dove into my stash. All this is being powered by 6 handmade bronze buttons made for me almost 30 years by a friend who is a sculptor. The buttons have survived 3 coats, now it’s time for them to come out of retirement (again)! Yarn: Took all of my stash (some of it older than my son who just turned 27) that was white (worsted, boucle, mohair, ?????) skeined it up, washed it & had a wonderful 2 weeks last summer time playing with dyes. The yarn has been whining at me ever since. The moment is HERE!!!!!! All are mostly in the deep purple to garnet range. I’m knitting strands together randomly. No pooling so far & definitely no yucky strips happening to this point. Notes: Errrrr....some of it is 27+ years old. I know this because I bought it at a Guild meeting when I was pregnant! Starting: In about 15 minutes, as soon as I make a cup of mint tea. | |
Betsey Hoyt | Evansville, IN |
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Project: I will knit the “Seafoam Sensation” by Melissa Leapman. It is in Knitter’s #50, Spring 1998, page 88. It’s a cardigan with bands of lace and garter stitch. I’ll have to increase the size, as the pattern only goes to a 44” chest measurement and I’ll have to change the sleeves from drop-shoulder to a more set-in fit. Yarn: I’m using Brown Sheep “Cotton Fleece” in “Oriental Jade.” Notes: I bought this yarn from a yarn shop in Dillsboro, NC in the spring of 1994, so it is well-aged. Starting: swatched 1/26/03, will start knitting soon | |
Carol Hurt | Fenton, MO (near St. Louis) |
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Project: A Pullover Split-Cowl neck sweater for myself. It’s a Laura Bryant (Prism) pattern #454. The collar is very deep (9”) and lies open in an asymmetrical way. I’ve even found 3 buttons in the exact color combination to sew on one side of the collar. It will not button however - just for decoration. 3/4 length sleeves. It’s sized to a 48” on size 13s, however it’s a very simple pattern and will be easy to enlarge to my finished size of 52”. I think the last time I knit this I used size 15 needles and that up-sized it perfectly. Yarn: Prism Confetti. It’s a beautiful periwinkle mohair that called to me on this bleak cold day. It has a second thread of little yarn “flags” in blue, green, magenta, teal. Almost like “Charm” with a strand of mohair. Notes: “Only” 2 years - because that’s when our house burned :-/ I owned this sweater before and really liked it. Starting: January 15 | |
Christine Bachwansky | Long Beach, California |
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Project: It’s a cotton tee designed by Judith Shangold, short sleeved with a vee-neck for my aunt. It has a little texture pattern to it. I Yarn: Have a bunch of balls of Berroco Smart Cotton in various colors that I purchased for this tee. Notes: It’s been lurking about for about 2 years in my stash containment area. I was a little intimidated by the pattern as this is my first adult garment. Starting: Jan 7, 2003 | |
Denise Raven | Placitas, NM |
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Project: Striped leg warmers for myself and my daughter in Oregon. Yarn: Lamb’s Pride sport weight, black and purple for hers, undecided for my colors.
Notes: At least 2 years, since I knit several hot water bottle covers for friends and family (from Knitter’s pattern). 2 of those were black and purple striped. Starting: Already started, but gauge problems meant frogging and restarting. First one is 1/3 done. | |
Dorothy Adams | Seal Beach, California, USA |
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Project: Plan to knit a cardigan out of hand dyed shades of brown that I purchased from Tess Yarns about 10 years ago. It has been waiting for a great inspiration, and this is it! I plan to try to incorporate mitered squares...maybe some other shapes, to equal a template pattern of my measurements. Will make it with NO sewing/weaving if possible. Yarn: Tess Designer yarns (shades of lucious browns) Notes: Possibly about 10 years. I bought it at a TKGA yarn market and couldn't resist it. Just waiting for an inspiration! Starting: Jan. 25, 2003 | |
Glenna Stansifer | Independence, CA, USA |
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Project: Ginny’s Cardigan - a Medrith Glover pattern Yarn: My own handspun - I’ve spun up many small amounts of various fibers, and have enough in the purple/magenta/violet range and some in the yellow/gold range to make a split-complementary color scheme. The yarns are primarily wools with a bit of silk and linen blended in some. Notes: The yarns have been building up as I spun them. Some are as much as 5 years old, and some I just spun up (when I needed more yarn to fill in - a bonus of spinning your own yarns! ;-) Starting: 1/7/03 | |
Joan J | Bridgton, ME |
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Project: Cuff to cuff sweater Yarn: Assorted orphan stash yarns ranging from plain worsteds through textured to metallics. Colors change every 2 to 4 rows. Notes: Anywhere from years to weeks. Starting: started January 2003 | |
Kathleen Miezio | Huntington, West Virginia |
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Project: Sweaters Yarn: All kinds of hand painted yarn, and novelty yarns Notes: Ohhhh....a while... Starting: now, of course (1/30/03) | |
Kathy Vaillancourt | Myrtle Beach, SC USA |
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Project: I did the “My Constant Companion.” I had Lopi yarn in red, bright blue, dark green and white from a sweater started in 1985ish....?? Yikes. I finished it last evening. It is right now as I type in the washing machine being felted. So, now I need to decide on a 2nd Stash Along project. I am having a hard time visualizing how this HUGE>>>>>>bag gets to be a more manageable size. Yarn: Lopi bulky very old yarn... Notes: This is from a yarn shop that use to be in Norwell, MA where I worked in 1985ish, “The Wishing Well.” It was such a lovely shop but like so many others closed...... Starting: I started on January 4th... | |
Korwyn Wynde | Thetford, Norfolk; United Kingdom |
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Project: I’m working on two: One is a SF Shirttail for my daughter (a teen-ample) in blues that I modified to use different yarns in my stash. The other is a Horst Schulz-inspired design using a favorite commercial cardigan as my “paper” pattern. Yarn: The SF Shirttail is knit in DK-weight superwash yarns. There’s some light variegated blue that I picked up in Germany, some Blueberry Hill Super Glitz sock yarn from Cherry Tree Hill and some Blue sock yarn from Lang with color blips. The cardigan is anchored in an off-lot batch of 1332 yards of Cherry Tree Hill’s Super Glitz sock in Indian Summer (dyed too dark), with a skein of potluck Rustic Silk (600 yards) in burgundy and green and a burgundy Silk Boucle (600-1200 yards). Other yarns may “join the party” at a later date, depending on the yardage needed! Notes: I liked the Super Glitz in knitting up my daughter’s sweater with the mitered squares. I spent most of a Saturday winding off skeins of sale yarns I had acquired and squirrled away. When I looked at a pound lot of the Super Glitz and a couple of other colors, the whole idea just clicked. Of course, I had to do a sample patch Sunday to test the waters. Five joined patches that evening convinced me I had a viable project! I’m using the patch formed by three mitered squares knitted at once (no slipped stitches) from the first Horst Schulz book Patchwork Knitting. Starting: Already Started | |
Marty | Lawton, OK |
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Project: I want to knit the shapely T from White Lies Designs without the shaping. We're moving home from CA to OK, and I want loose fitting for on the road. Yarn: Primo Sole from Fillati Boutique. It's a cotton nylon blend with the base being white and the slubbed wrap being 2 shades of blue and 2 of green. Notes: Had this in my stash probably a year and a half or longer. LOL I saw it on fuzzyorange.com when Dierdre was destashing and fell in love. No idea what to do with it until now. Starting: Sept 6 | |
Mary Ann Kirchhoffer | Ridge, eastern Long Island, New York |
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Project: I am going to do the Diamond patch that was a past project with some yarn my Mom gave me, I was thinking of weaving with it, but it looks just the yarn for the patches. Yarn: Some yarn my Mom recently gave me . She actually gave me several colorways, on cone and in balls. I will hopefully get a picture up soon. It is made of cotton/rayon/acrylic? It has 2 threads blue, a string of white and tan each and a crimped strand, shiny like rayon in tan. This colorway is lt blue/white/tan. very spring with kakhi pants. I’m hoping by easter it will be done(?). if sucessful, I will do others in the other colorways. There’s a burgundy/green/navy and a red/black, and one more, I forget the colors. Notes: I’ve had this yarn for about a year and a half. I never saw anything like it and I think my Mom didn't know what to do with it either-she had it about 10 years. She gave me all her stash from the attic after my dad died last year-22 boxes of assorted acrylic (mostly red heart and baby/spot weight yarns,but a few good ones here and there.) It clicked when I saw the diamond patch project in archives and I ordered the pattern and just received it. I think I will do the bigger squares, five across. Have to reread everyone’s hints! Starting: March 2003 | |
Michele Kesler | Rutherfordton, NC |
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Project: My own design of a poncho-ette (won’t go all the way past my hips as did the ponchos of old - just to elbow-length or wrist-length at the longest), knitted from the top down and with a front opening like a cardigan although I’m not yet sure of the type of closures I’ll use. Yarn: A conglomeration of darker toned variegated yarns, none of them a full skein. There are 3 or 4 that are handspun and the rest are Mountain Colors left-overs. Probably about 8 or 9 different yarns total and all are 100% wool. Very “oddball,” but that’s my style anyway! Notes: I’ve had most of these for at least two years, the oldest is four and a half. Starting: 01/01/03 | |
Monica A. Schafer | Portland, OR USA |
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Project: Modified Ann Norling’s Adult Pull Over Basic (Pattern #9). Instead of plain stockinette or an overall pattern stitch, will be turning it into an Aran with multiple cables, and knitting circularly, not flat. Yarn: Lion Brand Wool-Ease, Pine Prints color, worsted weight used doubled. Notes: Since 1998; first time I actually bought enough yarn at one fell swoop to make an entire sweater to fit me in 20 years or so. ;) My mother sent me a $200 check for my birthday that year and said, “Blow it!” Found LB yarns on sale at my local Fred Meyer store, so I did; got enough of 3 different yarns to make 3 sweaters, whee! A lot of my stash is much older, but in fancier yarns and smaller amounts. I need an easily washable, “at home” sweater, so the Wool-Ease is perfect. It’s the first time I’ve done an Aran, and I’m horrible at finishing things, so I’m hoping that the thought of everyone else out there stashing away will help. And UFO nights, too. (I may be finishing this up in time to wear it *next* winter, but I’ll still consider that a success. My other KAL projects are still sitting looking at me...accusingly.) Starting: As soon as I get all those cable patterns set out on index cards so I don’t lose track of where I am...Feb. 8th or so. | |
Paula Roberts | Revere, MA USA |
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Project: A short coat in purples and blues...standup collar and one-button closure. This is my own design, and I’ve wanted to do it for years now. I’ve called it “my purple coat.” Yarn: I’m using handspun yarn. I was planning to use some purchased yarn, but the texture didn’t match. So, I’ve climbed bins in my stash and found lots of purple fiber. I have enough spun for about 2/3 of the coat, so I guess I’ll be spinning as I go. Some of the yarn will need to be used doubled, as I want to average about a worsted weight. Notes: The basic yarn for this coat is early handspun...it’s probably nearly 6 years old. I spun a pound of “berries and wine” Merino on a drop spindle, before I owned a wheel, and it needs to be used properly. The fiber that I’ll be spinning is about 5 years old for the most part. Starting: Presently | |
Pauline Refaat | Long Island, New York |
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Project: I am making a cardigan vest; am toying with an asymetrical front, but may go with a traditional v-neck style.
Yarn: art.MOSAICA by Paulo Scettri, 60% wool, 40% acrylic. This is a variegated chenille in purple, emerald green, and gold, with a thinner strand of black running through it. It’s knitting up at 4 sts/inch on US #7 needles. Notes: I estimate I’ve had this yarn for about 10 years - always had a vest in mind for it. Starting: Started second week in January 2003 | |
Penny Hause | Providence, RI |
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Project: Knitted Ruana from Cheryl Oberle’s Folk Shawls, p. 103
Yarn: Lots of possibilities, including: • some ancient handspun that I’ve never made anything from. I took some lessons from Mary Pendleton at the Pendleton shop in Sedona, AZ, probably in the ’80s. Some was done on a drop spindle (I think that’s what it’s called--(see stash photo), some on a Navajo spindle, and some on a spinning wheel. It is white and I plan to dye it (possibly with dye from stash). • various inherited, donated, and leftover yarns. I think I want the overall color scheme to be teals, greens, and browns, so I may try to overdye the reds and maroons. • my sample skeins from my subscription to Elann.com. I’m a little concerned that the colors aren't really in the range that I think I want, but they’re very small. Some may not be enough for even a row on the shawl. So we’ll see. Notes: If I use the red knitting worsted, it was bought to make a sweater for my baby sister when she was about 3, and she’s 45 now. Other stuff goes back to the 70’s and 80’s. The most recent was probably bought a several months ago. This was partly inspired by Shelda’s Graceful and Darilyn’s diagonal garter stitch throw out of Elann sample skeins (postings to Ample-Knitters list around 7/02; there may be something on Darilyn’s site.) I think the first step is going to be dyeing the yarns that need to be dyed. Then swatching. Starting: today, 2/6/03 | |
Shelda Eggers | Columbia MO |
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Project: After MANY schemes and cancelled plans, I’ve decided to knit the cover sweater from Knitter’s Magazine #37 (Summer 1992). It’s called “Lace Fits,” and was designed by Nadia Severns. I love lace edgings and this uses them in very interesting ways. The largest size is a 45” bust measurement, but the shaping is very simple and it should be easy to adapt to the larger size I will need. Yarn: Stahl “Natura,” a linen/cotton blend. I’ve been swatching and I'm very happy with the results. Notes: I bought this yarn in January of 1999. This is one of the first “bundles” of yarn I purchased after I realized how much yarn it would really take to knit a sweater for my ample self! Every year I think I will get started on this one, so now I intend to just do so! I had been thinking I would do a winter sweater, and then it dawned on me that if I start now, I will be finishing my sweater in the spring, so I changed my plan to do a lighter weight, summery sweater. Starting: As soon as I finish my Summer Braids cardigan (I have the second sleeve and buttons bands still to do). So hopefully by February! | |
Shirley Kerfoot | Australia |
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Project: Garter stitch jumper roughly modelled on a Jill Vosburg sweater. Yarn: Patons Cottontop 100% cotton slubby type yarn. Notes: At least 5 years Starting: January 2003 | |
Stephanie Mrse | San Diego, California |
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Project: Cabin Fever Braids Cardigan Yarn: Bernat Sesame4 Worsted weight wool--pale yellow Notes: Only about 6 months--got it for a song off eBay. Starting: Jan. 18 | |
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