Remember these?
I bought the pattern for them along with the wool at the knitting and stitching show in Birmingham last September.
I got them from UK Alpaca, and thought that the pattern was their own one, loved them!
I knit them up and again loved the end result.
I ended up giving them to my friend Jenny, who admired them. She had just had baby No.2 and I had gone visiting. Jenny thought they were lovely and would be great to wear when driving, in the cold mornings (they were!).
Is it because these items get praised that I end up giving them away to the person prasing them?
It was the same with my first pair of fetchings that I made, Isabelle tried them on, and then declared that they would be great to wear when she goes running, which she does daily, in the cold air of Switzerland.
I gave both of these wristwarmers away gladly, as I know that they will be worn and loved.
So, I still had over 50g of the alpaca yarn that I bought in Birmingham left, and decided to make myself another pair of the wristwarmers.
Could I find the pattern?
No.
Not to be seen anywhere.
I thought I had the pattern living with the yarn, but it was nowhere to be seen.
So I decided to put it aside and wait until I came across it. I rarely lose anything.
So a couple of days later, I got one of my regular emails from Lion Brand, with their stitch pattern of the month, and decided to go into their site to find a nice stitch pattern to make a dishcloth from (forgetting that I have a fantastic book of stitch patterns that I was reminded about when I saw Isobel’s treasure trove last Saturday at SnB)
What did I come across?
The same Stitch Pattern that was used in my wristlets.
I wondered then did my UK Alpaca suppliers take the same stitch pattern to make their wristlets, or did they make it up?
Imagine my surprise then when I got my Simply Knitting magazine through the door (which I subscribed to last year and not going to subscribe to again as I don’t usually knit from it).
I sat down with a cup of tea to have a flick through it………..and …….what?
Where did they come from?! There were my wristlets, staring up at me.
For this issue, the designer was apparently set a challenge to make a pair of practical fingerless gloves with 100g of UK Alpaca and this is what she came up with….is this a coincidence or is it a copy cat case….hmmm….wish I could find my pattern to compare notes!
Oh, and I know that she would be able to make not one but 2 pairs of fingerless gloves from that ball of alpaca!
Its not too late to send your piece in to them, they won’t be wrapping the scarves round the Lions til 20th or so of February I think….get their details from the site here
Here’s hoping.
