She was a phenomenal seamstress, and as mentioned previously most of my childhood clothes were loving hand stitched by her.
She wasn't only a machinist though, and was very capable with wool as well.
When we were cleaning out Mum's house last year I came across a glorious bag of wool odd and ends, including a magnificent ball of multi coloured madness.
I'm not sure what she was ever going to do with it, because multi colour wasn't really mum's 'thing' but I snapped it up and got knitting.
Knitting for someone like me is S.L.O.W.
Even though I was only doing a plain/purl stripe this took me weeks.
In progress....
And done!
(Model provided by Back Yard modelling Inc)
So just in time for spring and too late for Winter I had made myself a fabulous pure wool snood.
And it's lovely :)
And no Cole you're not allowed to keep it.
This was cool for a change - there was no set up/pack up like when you get the machine out, and it was something I could do while chilling out watching TV. I can't do that when I'm sewing because it takes my full attention.
Pretty happy with how it turned out, but I don't think knitting is going to be a full time hobby for me, I'm an instant gratification kinda girl, and it was just to slow.
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