Identify the UUFO (Unidentified Un-Finished Object) and Win
Two chances to win a $10 Gift Card to Wool and Company.
Our friend and customer Teresa came by with a challenge – what the heck was the pattern? You see she started this about 3 years ago, put it down and when she came to pick it back up she couldn’t find the pattern. We searched our records to see if we could come up with an answer, but zilch! Here are a few clues:
- It’s a child size
- It’s knit with worsted weight (in this case Knit One Crochet Too’s Parfait)
- It’s currently on US6 needles.
Take your best shot with a comment below and we’ll give a $10 Wool and Company Gift Card to the first person who correctly identifies it. Terry is the judge on this as she knows she’ll recognize it once someone comes up with the designer/pattern.
We’ll award a second $10 Gift Card to the person who comes up with the funnest idea for the future this garment – whether or not the pattern is identified.
Cashmere Being Auctioned
Red Charcoal Black
Cashmere – the fine, soft wool or down hair from the undercoat of the Kashmir goat. Each goat produces abut 4 ounces of this valuable fiber each year – this makes it one of the most expensive and most sought after fibers in the world (after qiviuk which we stock in our store). We’re currently auctioning 2 goats-worth of the collectible Jaeger Cashmere, which is 90% cashmere and 10% polyamide (gives it extra durability).
An exquisite yarn that is perfect for accessories like scarves and gloves.
Make your bid at the right.
Check back soon - we'll be adding knitting and crochet items to our Chicken Wire Auction for you to peck at. In the meantime,
You know those geese that people have and make all the different clothes for? Instead of a goose, you could take the sweater, and make a bunch of different “bodies” to wear the sweater. At Halloween, you could have a pumpkin in the sweater. A turkey for Thanksgiving. At Christmas, you could put it on a reindeer. In January, it could go on a snowman. For spring, how about a rabbit? And surely in the summer it should go on a sheep! With a note that says “It itches”! This would certainly take a UFO to a new level…
1Creative uses:
2Isn’t there a group out there that knits for trees, etc.? I think this would fit nicely on a fire hydrant. It could start a new winter trend!
Hey Gretl-
I just can’t go the Twitter route-any more electronic communication and I’d have to give up knitting!
I spend yesterday at selection for jury duty. I DID take my knitting, so that I could at least say that I “had been knitting for pay”!
And it is a very cute sweater, isn’t it? Although the child it was originally made for is no doubt long past that size…
Thanks for solving my little mystery.
3Kathi
The UUFO in the pic above IS a cardi, not a pullover.
4Looks a lot like the Trellis cardigan only as a pullover. http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTtrellis.html
Might be able to use it as a doggie shrug … http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter07/PATTcablesandbits.html
5Hi Kathi! I read the question on the Wool & Co blog on Saturday after I saw it in my Twitter.
(Doesn’t that sound like a foreign language?)
Anyway, it was the sort of challenge I like to take on, probably just like you!! I tracked it dow through Ravelry after some other wacky searching on the web. And isn’t it a pretty sweater?
6The pattern in Cables with Heart by Linda Cyr, from the cover of Knitter’s Magazine 40, Fall 1995. Also in “Arans & Celtic: The Best of Knitter’s Magazine”.
Can be found on Ravelry. And how did Gretl (who obviously got this before I did!) post last Saturday (6/13), when my Knitting w/Company didn’t even hit my inbox until yesterday?
7Last one, I swear! Take a peek at all the other versions on Rav and you’ll see it’s pretty identical to the Melinda Goodfellow design as far as I can tell.
Anyhoo, as for ideas… I would make a purse out of it! I can picture it making a pretty cute doggy sweater, too.
8Says its from the Yankee Knitter Designs #19 http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/yankee-knitter-designs-19
9Kinda looks like the Child’s Aran Sweater by Melinda Goodfellow… http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/childs-aran-sweater-3
10Well, seems the mystery has been solved.. I hope I have this old issue of knitters. My first guess was that it was in the knitting ganseys by beth brown-reinsel. I did also decide that it was a childs. Glad to know that someone else has unfinished business as I do. Someone once said that’s why we leave things undone..can’t leave this earth with unfinished items and business not yet finished. Have a great day! Jill
11Mystery Sweater Part 3
It was originally in Knitters #40, Fall 1995, starting on page 30. This version probably needs the correction above. The version in the “Best of Knitters, Arans and Celtics” may be corrected.
Gretl
12Mystery Sweater Part 2
There is a correction for the Cables and Hearts sweater at this website: http://www.knittinguniverse.com/downloads/corrections/correct.pdf
Gretl
13Mystery Sweater? Try this: Best of Knitters Arans and Celtics. I think it is the Cables with Heart by Linda Cyr.
Gretl
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