A Stitch In Time Vol2
November 12th, 2011, 12:48 pm
Excitement this week – My copy of A Stitch in Time Volume 2 arrived. Susan Crawford even signed it for me – Thanks Susan!
It’s this book
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It is a HUGE book, ram packed with 120 fantastic patterns from 1930s – 1959. All graded and made with modern yarns. Some are not to my taste but others are definately on my wish list. Even if you didn’t knit, it’s a facinating coffee table book to flick through.
Do you remember that I knitted “To Wear in the Evenings” (or Top Secret as I called it) for the first volume? I blogged it here –>> Top Secret – Declassified
This was the garment…
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Well, told you in my “Where have you been?” post that I had knit a garment for Volume two and here it is!!
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It’s a fabulous lace top from the 1950′s called The Ribbon Threaded Jumper. It’s on page 310 if you have the book. Here’s the original picture from the 1950′s…
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Do you like??
It really was an absolute pleasure to knit. Knitshop Pima Cotton and a pretty straight forward lace pattern. Very “my kinda knit”! The yoke is interesting – the back, front and both sleeves are put on a circular needle and yoke is knitted in one piece. Strangely, it’s knit back and forth with an opening at the back that you sew up later. I would knit it in the round if I wasn’t making a sample strictly to the pattern!
Wanna see some more piccies?
Here are some, just before I sent my “Ribbon Threaded jumper” back to the publishers.
How the sleeve and yoke attach…
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The completed jumper before sewing up (I send it back without sewing it)…
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Some yoke detail….
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And from the book – a cute sleeve picture…
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And that neck – all beribboned and finished 
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So did I get a mention in this fantastic book?
Naturally, at the front in the acknowledgement – a list of all us brave knitters…
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So all that’s missing from this post now is a completed knit report and a picture of Mewsley, refusing to get off the knitting!
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| Completed Knit Report | ||
| Name: | Ribbon Threaded Jumper | |
| Pattern: | A Stitch in Time Volume 2 | |
| Yarn: | ~Knitshop Pima Cotton | |
| Pattern Problems: | none - a dream to make | |
| Pattern Modifications: | None (it was a sample so I couldn’t! | |
| Washing and Wearing: | I won’t ever know – sent back unsewn | |
| Knit It Again???: | Yes! Probably make one for myself | |
| Difficulty: | 2/5 | |
| Rating: | 4/5 | |
| Other Postings Relating To This One: | Top Secret – Declassified | |
