{"id":73,"date":"2012-06-07T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuesdayfortnite.co.uk\/?p=73"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:28:09","slug":"d-i-y-yarn-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuesdayfortnite.co.uk\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"D.I.Y. Yarn Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November of 2011 I was starting to ponder Christmas presents for myself (my birthday is the 23rd and I invariably get lots of people asking me what I want) and I was looking at all the beautiful different yarn clubs available.\u00a0 Ones for sock yarns, ones for lace, ones for sock patterns, ones for shawls, ones with a theme, ones for a particular type of fibre, ones for indie dyers… it was all so overwhelming.<\/p>\n

I also felt a bit like I was cheating on my existing stash – and I had a couple of unanswerable questions about the yarn clubs (what if I didn’t like the colour, or the pattern, or needed more, or if I fell behind?).<\/p>\n

What I ended up deciding to do was my own ‘free’ yarn club.\u00a0 I would bundle up my existing yarn with the pattern I wanted to make from that yarn, with maybe a surprise and then a ‘sketchy’ note on the outside such as ‘quick’ or ‘laceweight’ or ‘rustic’.\u00a0 Then each time I finished a project I could ‘adjective’ dive and pick out a surprise lucky dip type package.\u00a0 Of course life isn’t quite that smooth, so I didn’t get chance to wrap up everything before December, but I did get to give a number of yarn\/pattern pairings to a dear friend. I say a number<\/em> because I genuinely can’t remember how many.\u00a0 His instructions were to add a *small* surprise if he wished (he is forever buying me little treats) and to hand them back at some point in 2012 to be decided by him.<\/p>\n

We meet up for dinner every month(ish), and this month I got an extra bag!\u00a0 My beautiful forest green Wollmeise was returned to me, along with my signed copy of Franklin Habit’s Giovannina Stole (both of which I had completely forgotten I had handed over in the first place)<\/p>\n

\"Forest<\/a>

do-it-yourself stole kit<\/p><\/div>\n

along with 2 bars of Lindt chocolate (nom) and a wonderful collection of 1940-1980s patterns (knit and crochet) which he had found in his mothers loft (who used to own a haberdashery).<\/p>\n

\"collection<\/a>

anybody else feel old?<\/p><\/div>\n

(sorry about the blurry quality – I will take some better ones I promise!).\u00a0 I’ve had a ball reading the Woman’s Weekly from Sept 1980, and some of the yarn pictures are genuinely terrifying – the Paton’s green boarded one you can see on the right has the entire family dressed in the exact same green cabled\/lace jumper (though ‘his’ buttons the other way) – no wonder the dog needs two people to hold onto him!<\/p>\n

The yarn is sitting staring at me, and I have managed to photocopy my own ‘abuse’ copy of the pattern.\u00a0 Now I just have to get up the courage to start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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