Friday, 25 January 2013

Day 514 &More Knitting Club with My ‘Flush-y’ Gilet




I laughed so much at the Knitting Club yesterday evening that my face is literally aching. Finally finished an oversized gilet that I started about 20 years ago. Ate the most delicious poppy seed cake, drank cups of rosehip, cloves and orange peel tea and chatted a lot. Margit decided to start making beany hats. She is so good, she can make one within 2 hours. I am not sure which old projects of mine to carry on with next, but have two options at least. I knitted a lot, when I was in love with baggy clothes so all my half-finished jumpers and vests are just so huge I can fit in them twice or even three times. I remember always being afraid of making them too small and ended up with sacks. We call my finally finished vest: ‘Eperke’, when I put it on, I look like a huge strawberry according to the Knitting Club girls :-) All I need as they say is a green hat. I remember knitting it when was reading Virginia Woolf’s Flush. Being my favourite writer I was in love with all her works and even knitted the name ‘Flush’ in the gilet with dark blue flowers, mushrooms, Christmas trees and all sorts. Of course, I never wanted to put it apart, once I realised it was too big. It took me ages to knit all the patterns. The funniest bit is, when the Knitting Club girls asked me what Flush meant, I explained about the book and added that in every day conversation we use it most often when we old-fashion-ly ‘powder our nose’ and flush the toilet :-) They burst into laugh and could not stop all evening pulling my leg about my ‘flush-y’ gilet design :-)
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