Wearing it has filled me with memories of my grandmother, the Knitter who passed her genes down to me. I lived with her and took care of her that summer while she was ill. That was the year she taught me how to go from seed stitch scarves to drop-stitch horizontally-striped sweaters.
Son snapped this picture while I was making peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches for lunch.
I spent forEVER trying to depill the old sweater. Anybody have any advice? Do you just sit there and pull the things off? Use a razor? And how do you use a sweater stone effectively?
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I knit two rows of Swallowtail without tinking anything! Oh Happy Day!
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Finally, I would like to introduce my Amazon bookstore:
The Raven Reads!
I've listed some of my favorite knitting books with brief reviews.
8 comments:
Regarding pilled sweaters--I stretch it out on the ironing board and use one of those de-fuzzer things--it may be called a sweater stone. It takes a long time. If the sweater isn't stockinette, I pull off the pills--sometimes snip them off--while watching TV. Isn't it fabulous how long handknit sweaters last?
On pills: SNIP the pills off. Don't pull--that just makes things worse later. Do one section of the garment at a time: sleeve, sleeve, front, back.
The job is almost {grin} enjoyable if you have very sharp, small scissors. Embroidery scissors are good; my favorites are a pair of pointy-nosed Fiskars (this might work: http://tinyurl.com/y5rsqy). Looks like model 9481 approximates what I have, although mine have blue handles.
I've got a sweater stone, too. Works wonders!
The shawl took that threat to heart and behaved! Yay for no tinking.
I use a battery-powered sweater shaver. Granted, it gets clogged pretty easily, but it can handle my long wool winter coat too.
This is what I love about handknitting: things last forever and ever, carrying with them fond memories of when they were knit. It really adds a bit of spiritual practice to the business of knitting a sweater.
I use the sweater stone too... I am impressed that you still love this first sweater and want to wear it. I have a few lingering fashion-knit experiments I would be embarassed to be seen in.
I *love* peanut butter and banana sandwiches!!!
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