Monday, June 22, 2009

Patons Heirloom Patterns

I love the old baby patterns, I do have this pattern in a very old Patons book. Patons have now bought out a lovely pattern book of Heirloom Patterns and the cardigan I have knitted for my grand-daughter is the same as I had when a baby and I did knit for my boys - in blue naturally.


I knitted this one in Shepherd 4ply pure wool in a beautiful soft pinkfrom my very favourite LYS - CR&K Daisy Desings at Fairy Meadow. It looks lovely on grand-daughter. I knitted the 12 months size. That is a good thing with the new Heirloom book is that the sizes for all the patterns are from newborn to 12months, which is great for the one's I really want to knit now she is coming up 12months.


This blue jacket will probably go to Guardian Pharmacy for charity. I have noticed that the guardian pharmacy are not sending our knitted items overseas to Mongolia anymore, but are distributing the items to Australian charities. I am now knitting some small baby beanies for my charity knitting, this will be good for my stash busting efforts, which are still going. I got this acrylic yarn from a shop in Kiama which was closing down a few years back I might add, it has another owner now.

I am still trying to read the blogs I have listed along with new ones, I mainly lurk without commenting, not that I don't won't to comment, just that sometimes I don't have the time to spend commenting, but I am there.