Oldest Finished Object Challenge
Lori Seeger of Ohio is the winner of the Oldest Finished Object Challenge. With her finished Wheat cable Aran Started 1990 Attached is an invoice for additional yarn for this project dated 1991. Note that the credit card receipt says phone sale. This was pre-internet days and this LYS was 3 hours from home. I brought the pattern book back from the UK in 1987. I got started, ran out of yarn and lacked the technical skills to rewrite the sleeve pattern to accommodate the materials available. The project went on hold until my technical skills improved to the point that I could re-work the pattern.
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Lori has won the $25 gift certificate towards any book on the Country Knitting of Maine website. www.countryknittingofmaine.com Thanks to Country Knitting of Maine for your support! Please be sure to peruse the offerings on the website folks!
Ugliest Frogged Object
Honestly, I don’t think Lesley Cerva’s project is all that ugly. However she wins this particular competition because she was the ONLY ENTRY! See folks? It does pay to enter these contests.
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Lesley’s efforts have earned her the Knitting Today offering a skein of worsted weight ty-dy wool along with the Short Row Pennants Scarf pattern. Please visit www.knittingtoday.com
Re-Purposed yarn
Sharon Wuerschmidt has won for Re-Purposed Yarn she re-purposed yarn from a vest (mostly) that isn’t going to make a great vest. She said “I knitted this at the MK retreat last November. It is a man’s classic vest, knit from 4 skeins (1500 yds) sport weight Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride (85% wool, 15% mohair). The problem is that the yarn is not suitable for hard wear, such as friction, that the intended wearer will inflict. The yarn is a single ply, very lofty, with very little twist. So, he’s getting his classic vest out of some nice jaggerspun. And I’m frogging this and will use in a knit-weave project. I’m thinking vest and matching bag. We’ll see what it looks like in May.”
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Way to Re-Purpose Yarn!! Sharon had this to say about her re-finishing pictures. “The contest entry- repurposed yarn. This (pic 171(REPURPOSED)) is an envelope for my DD’s ipad. I dithered over this yarn for so long, and finally went with what the yarn wants to do (always a problem for me ,lol). What
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it wants to do is felt. It is sport weight Lamb’s Pride (15% mohair, from Brown Sheep). I combined it with another one-ply, Brown Sheep sport weight Lanaloft in a purple (thunderstorm) gradual variegated, and knit it on the 560 in fairisle (pic 172 (CLOSEUP) at T9. I washed it in the (front loading) washing machine, and it came out perfect for size! It also felted down all of the yarn carries to give a no-lining-needed inside finish. (And, for future reference, felted so beautifully that ends need not be woven in!!)”
Congratulations Sharon! You are receiving the prize package from Mary Anne Oger! Sharon has the choice of Mary Anne’s most recent – Simple-icity (std gauge) or Two Step ( mid gauge) pattern. Folks you can check them out here: www.knitwords.com
Congratulations Winners! Thank you to all of our contest participants and the sponsors! Which also included Knit it Now I had selected the Knit it Now package for the Most Challenging Finish Category. Most you know that this category was cancelled to due a misunderstanding about the entry status.
