I'm running for the finish line on the centre panel with 34 repeats [of 40] completed!
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And now for the Wedding Rhyme Game. I started this game so I'd better set some rules!
- The object must be yarn related.
- "old" is relative but I'm thinking anything older than DD who will be 23 in April. After all, life before DD seems like a long time ago, back in the "olden days"! In fact, the day after my 21st birthday one of my students said: "Mrs Too Hot To Knit, back in the olden days when you were a little girl..."; so obviously 21 is old!
- "new" can be new to the owner, even if it's not brand-new!
- "borrowed" is something that doesn't actually belong to me although it is now in my possession
- "blue" - something that is mostly blue or nearly blue; heck, this is a game - if I say it's blue, it's blue! LOL
So, here we go:
Oldest pattern


But the vest pattern isn't the oldest pattern in my possession, I borrowed this one from my MIL when I was pregnant with DD and it was bought for one of her children [WM is the eldest] so it is at least 43 years old.
Oldest book


That honour goes to this book. I bought this about 28 years ago when SIL#1 was pregnant with the first grandchild in the family. I knitted a lemon cardigan but it may have been too girly - it had lace panels as I recall! I certainly never saw nephew #1 in that cardigan. I still use this book occasionally - I knitted a cardigan from it in 2007-2008. This view shows the back cover - I scanned the wrong page!
Have to go - it's nearly 1:30pm and I haven't even finished one repeat! More 'old' tomorrow!
oh if I could upload photos in a comment.
ReplyDeleteI have a very old Patons bootee book.
It was my grandmothers so hence probably about 50yrs.
got that last baby knitting book but it doesn't even come close to being my oldest one which is probably a Patons & Baldwins one from the late 1920s
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