Sample knitting
Posted on | June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Recently I received an email from a company in London asking me if I would be interested in knitting traditional Aran Cardigans for them. They had found my details on the UK HandKnitting website
After sending them an email saying that I would be interested, they replied saying that it was normal practice for “new” knitters to do a sample project first, before they send out yarn for cardigans. I agreed to this and the next day I received a parcel with yarn and a pattern to knit an aran hat.
The pattern had several pattern panels ranging from 4 to 12 rows per pattern. After a couple of false starts, I finally got going with the pattern and finished the hat in a day.
When I saw the yarn colours that were to go into this hat, I didn’t think they would go well together, but I was really pleased with how it turned out!
I posted the hat off to them and the following Monday I received an email saying that they were very pleased with my “sample” and were wondering how many cardigans I would be able to do before September!
Now, my first Craft Fair this year is on the 5th of September and I need to get some serious stock done before then, so I told them this and said that I should be able to do two cardigans before September for them.
To my surprise they were quite happy with this and I received a parcel the following day with yarn to knit two 38″ Gents Aran Cardigans.
When I opened the parcel, I was expecting to see cream yarn to knit the “traditional Arans”, but boy, was I wrong!
There was two cones of aran, but the colours were far from traditional!
One is a Lime Green and the other is a very bright Orange!
I have been knitting the Green one for the past few days and I am sure I am going blind with the brightness of it!
Hopefully I will have the first one finished and posted back by next Monday at the latest. They want to see the first one before I start knitting the second, just to make sure that I do it properly, so I will try and get some stock done while it is in the post.
Tags: 100% wool > Aran > aran cardigan > aran hat > gents aran cardigan > Hand Knitting
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July 6th, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
Oh too funny! I sympathize with your plight however. Quite a few of my friends love colors that I find burningly bright (lime green, hot pink, highlighter yellow). I swear that when I close my eyes, the colors are still seared into my retinas. Good luck with the craft fair, though!
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