Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Knitting for Others

Recently completed "knitting for others" items include a toddler vest sent to Children In Common, and two Baby Jiffy Knit sweaters sent to the Anchorage Stork Project:The two baby sweaters are knit of "Esmeralda Spring" - an acrylic yarn I bought at a shop in Damascus, Syria in the mid 1980's when we were assigned to the US Embassy there. I had visions of knitting myself a narrowly striped vest of the blue, cream and gray yarn which is a fingering weight - what was I thinking?! So the yarn has been "aging" in for over 20 years, clearly the oldest yarn in my collection. I'll never make the vest so have decided to use the yarn double- stranded to make baby sweaters. There's enough blue and white yarn leftover to make another of this Baby Jiffy Knit sweater pattern (http://wishingiwasknitting.blogspot.com) and I think I'll use the gray to make the smallest size Wallaby hooded sweater.