When I made my jumper last year, Mick said he wanted one.
I found a King Cole pattern, Number 4144 to be made in Arran.
I used an acrylic Aran and Alpaca mix wool for £2.99 or £3.99 per ball, can’t remember.
I bought 9 and managed to knit a hat for me too.
Annette gave me a kitchen table Aran knitting lesson, once I got to the fancy parts. I pulled the front piece back twice under her instruction, which took ages. I couldn’t quite get all the pattern in my head and had to have a pen resting on the pattern all the time to keep my place and write down every line. She modified the pattern considerably and I could not have done it without her. No wonder people give up.
An Aran pattern of 4 stitches wide is simply slipping 2 stitches onto a small needle knit-wise (which has a kink in the middle to hold them in place) and putting it to the front of the work, knitting the next 2 stitches from the needle and then knitting the 2 stitches from the small needle itself, this twists the pattern and is only done every 4 rows.
It is a lovely cuddly jumper, and is coming sailing with us.
The bonus hat was made from a pattern called ‘Daisy’ I got with Liz in Leyburn from the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Shop.
The only tricky bit was that the cables are 10 stitches wide so you have to put 5 stitches onto the small needle which is a bit of a squeeze.
I made the hat with a rim version.
I only had 2 feet of wool left at the end, mild sweating but OK.
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