My day

[freddie*rooster]

After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this

[bushies.girl]

Good Morning 🙂

Mr B is the hoarder is this household .... I am the opposite, cant handle clutter/junk/"might come in handys" at all lol ......

Been busy re vamping some of the front garden, transferring bricks from the back to the front, dodging the frequent showers and generally having fun, planning, planning, planning.

What has everyone else been up to lately?

[b3llag1na]

Deb.... I did have a big bag of baby wool like that. Stuff I had bought to knit for my kids!!  ( the youngest is 30)

I sold off most of it to the ladies at Bingo before we moved, they were like vultures! LOL

(I have since found more in a plastic crate....)

[lyndal1838]

I can go one better than that.

In 1966 when I was engaged to my first OH he was going overseas for 6 months with the Navy.  I decided to make myself a jumper for our honeymoon.  I spent a small fortune on some lovely watermelon coloured mohair wool and matching Bluebell wool for the trim.  And some obscenely expensive buttons (it was a back buttoning roll collar pattern).  I think the whole lot cost me nearly a weeks pay back then.

It definitely turned into a labour, but not of love.   I hated the wool....it always looked uneven.  At the end of the 6 months I had completed several jumpers and cardigans for myself and other members of the family but the lovely watermelon mohair was less than half finished.

The next time it saw the light of day was when my eldest daughter was a teenager and found it hidden away.  She asked me to finish it for her.   Again I gave up, but it has progressed somewhat.  I am thinking of resurrecting it again and finishing it for my eldest granddaughter.....50 years after it was first started.

And for the record, I still don't like the uneven finish when it is knitted up although I adore the colour still.

[b3llag1na]

I wish I could still knit 

I have bad arthritis in my thumb joint - I can still make the knitting motion OK but as soon as there is the smallest amount of weight on the needles I am in agony.

I have several half finished projects that I have still kept  - one is a jumper for my eldest grandson for when he was about 18months old (he's turning 13 soon!) ... I am thinking I might try to do just a little bit each day so the coming grandbaby can wear it.

[amber-eyed-girl]

B3, that would really be a lovely thing to finish 🙂

[lyndal1838]

Yes, my knitting days are numbered....it is going to be a real chore to finish the jumper but unless I do it now it may as well go in the garbage as neither of my daughters knit although the eldest was taught to crochet by her great grandmother...something I could never master.   It will probably take me nearly as long to finish the last piece of the jumper as it took me to do all the rest combined.

If I had had half a brain I would have handed it over to mum to finish as she was a knitting wizz....it was just plain old fashioned pride that prevented me from doing so.....I was a bit afraid of her "I told you so".

We had a great production line going....I knitted the cardigan/jumper and gave it to Mum to join up....it was a job I hated.

[lloydslights]

Funny isn't it.  I loved joining up the garment.   Classed as a job well done.  I used to do my MILs too and the V-necks.

My daughter wanted to learn knitting at about 6-7 years old, her little brother didn't want to be left out and he started too.  He had good hand/eye coordination but found that sitting still for more than 15 mins was boring.

I recall my first ever jumper I knitted.  I was 11yo tomato coloured, boat neck, 8 ply.  And it fitted! and looked good.  

Mum told me that at that age she was knitting "Socks for Soldiers" on 4 needles.  Her Church was sending them to England (1942?); and then later on, socks were knitted for "our" soldiers.  I have kept her last finished piece,  a large round cotton knitted table cloth.

Comforting memories.

DEB

[imastawka]

Lovely memory Deb.   I don't remember who taught me to knit.

I don't remember my mum knitting and I'm the only one in my family

that does,  so ??

I can still knit, fingers are holding up, but can't see to sew

them up and finish off.  

I had a chinese friend many years ago

who knitted jumpers in one piece - and when I say one piece

I mean the jumper was complete, no sewing up anywhere. 

It was knitted sideways and I could never get the hang of it.

Hopefully when I finally get my cataracts done I can get back

into it.  Littlest grandson has been nagging for me to knit him

a jumper.

[bluecat*dancing]

My mum was an avid knitter and was always knitting something for someone.

[lloydslights]

Not a lot of physical stuff happening here, but thought I'd get us on to the Front Page again with a piccie of what I have been doing.

DEB