Comments on: Identify the UUFO (Unidentified Un-Finished Object) and Win

By: Kathi

Kathi — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:03:05 +0000

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…

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:27:28 +0000

Creative uses:
Isn’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!

By: Kathi

Kathi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:52:12 +0000

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 Although the child it was originally made for is no doubt long past that size…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.
Kathi

By: Susan L

Susan L — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:36:56 +0000

The UUFO in the pic above IS a cardi, not a pullover.

By: Rhonda the StitchingNut

Rhonda the StitchingNut — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:52:14 +0000

Looks 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

By: Gretl

Gretl — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:40:14 +0000

Hi 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?

By: Kathi

Kathi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:54:28 +0000

The 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?

By: Susan L

Susan L — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:35:40 +0000

Last 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.

By: Susan L

Susan L — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:27:32 +0000

Says its from the Yankee Knitter Designs #19 http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/yankee-knitter-designs-19