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.... where we found Upcountry - the Rowan shop - and I spent almost £80 on
yarn for a very special jumper to wear on our Arctic Cruise. It will be the most challenging thing I've ever knitted, I hope it's as good as the illustration in the pattern book. Mary |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t... ... where we found Upcountry - the Rowan shop - and I spent almost £80 on yarn for a very special jumper to wear on our Arctic Cruise. It will be the most challenging thing I've ever knitted, I hope it's as good as the illustration in the pattern book. Mary Is there a picture of the sweater on the Rowan site or in which pattern book is it? Upcountry is a great wool shop, isn't it? I had a wonderful time when I visited it, perfect place to blow your budget. DA |
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t... "DA" don't live wrote in message news "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... ... where we found Upcountry - the Rowan shop - and I spent almost £80 on yarn for a very special jumper to wear on our Arctic Cruise. It will be the most challenging thing I've ever knitted, I hope it's as good as the illustration in the pattern book. Mary Is there a picture of the sweater on the Rowan site or in which pattern book is it? Upcountry is a great wool shop, isn't it? I had a wonderful time when I visited it, perfect place to blow your budget. DA I'll scan and put it up as a tinypic. I blew my budget - it was £78 but the cruise cost a LOT more than that - and I've only just started on my wardrobe. Cl;othes are normally unimportant to me, i'm a scruff and don't care. But I shall invisible mend the moth holes in his dinner jacket and search for evening clothes I like - and possibly dayclothes too (jeans and sweat shirts are hardly The Thing!) and bugger the expense. You can't take it with you. Mary Mary, I don't know how far you live from Bradford, but here is an address/phone number for West Yorkshire Mohair Mills. Address: Mohair Mills, Gibson Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD3 9TS, UK Telephone: (01274) 471249 They have/had a huge warehouse open to the public, and good prices on wool, mohair, etc. Shopping for the cruise would be almost as much fun as the cruise for me. Why leave it for your kids to take a cruise after you are gone. IMO, you earned it, so you should enjoy it. DA |
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We're eleven miles, door to door, from there. There were lots of such places in this part of Yorkshire, indeed my great grandmother worked at the famous Salts alpaca mill and lived in Saltaire. Yorkshire folk have been steeped in the woolen industry for generations - from animal to clothing. One of the reasons we chose the Dales to visit. When we go on holiday my DH and I try to avoid large cities and the "typical" tourist haunts. When I Googled for Mohair Mills I got a freight company at that address :-( I think that the company is probably listed as A.C Wood. And by the way, I started making a gauge swatch last night and the wool (Rowan) is beautiful to work, the swatch is so lovely and even that I shan't want to pull it out and I feel that the finished jumper won't irritate my skin as most wool does. It's an American pattern and the needle sizes are slightly different from ours so the swatch is essential. I can't rely on getting exactly the right gauge without doing one. Interestingly, because there is no plain stocking stitch in the pattern the gauge is measured over 'seed stitch' (which we call moss stitch). That makes for more interesting knitting. It is rather ironic that you chose an American pattern, I prefer British patterns to most of what I see in the US knitting books and magazines. I have a collection of old Rowan books from which I am still knitting various jumpers. I'm so looking forward to starting on the real thing! Better scan the picture for you to see. Please do and also I would love to see a picture of the finished garment too. DA |
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For some reason I can't get Tinypic to upload the picture. Any ideas for an alternative similar site? Mary Mary does your ISP/news server provide access to alt.binaries.pictures.crafts or alt.binaries.crafts? You could upload it to either news group. In case you are not familiar with posting to binary groups, just attach the picture to a message just like in email. DA |
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