Our other big project since the Hill End Market was our knitted hoodie commission.
While waiting for our steak sandwich and chips at Kepple Street Fish Shop, Ruth was knitting (as always), and ended up in a conversation with Georgie about it that finished with Georgie commissioning a hooded jumper for her son. Kepple St Fish Shop has fantastic take away food by the way. Many gluten free options available and I've never got sick eating from there (I have Coeliac's and the tiniest amount of cross contaminated gluten and I get really sick).
She mentioned wanting it big and baggy but at first we didn't realise she wanted it for her son rather than herself. We showed her a couple of designs but she just wanted a plain jumper with a kangaroo pocket on the front and a hood.
Ruth ended up mashing together about 3 patterns and made some stuff up as she went. I tacked on the sleeves once they were knit up and we found that they were ridiculously long. Not sure how that happened as she was mostly working from the Central Park Hoodie pattern for the sleeves, just leaving off the cables. I can see how that could mean that the sleeves would be too wide but too long? We weren't happy with the shape at the top of the sleeves either. I couldn't get it to attach neatly. Ruth ripped back to the start of the decreases and we decided to just decrease on every row. It worked great.
The funny lump there in the hood is just because Ruth had her hair bunned up.
I tacked it all together again and we took it in to Bathurst so we could check the size. This was when we found out that it wasn't for Georgie but for her son. Who is very tall. The shoulders and arms fitted perfectly though so that was good.
We took it home, I undid all the seems and Ruth ripped the body pieces back to just before the decreases for the sleeves, added another 6 inches and then did the decreases.
I sewed it all together properly this time and wove all the ends in. Boy it is heavy and my shoulders are dodgy. It was knit with two strands of 8ply (DK weight) Luxury from Bendigo Woolen Mills in Cork Brown. 100% Wool and incredibly warm. Should be fantastic this winter. It regularly gets down to -6c at night here in Hill End. I don't think it gets quite that cold in Bathurst but they'll certainly have more use for such a warm jumper there than you would in Sydney.
With the extra 6 inches it fit really well. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of it on the person it was made for. As usual these photos were taken just before we drove in to Bathurst to deliver the jumper. As an amateur photographer I'm never happy with the rushed photos. I really should factor in more time to take some decent product photos before sending things off.
If you're interested in commissioning a knitted jumper or jacket email us at wallflowerarts@gmail.com about pricing. Because of the weight the postage would be a fair bit so if you're not in Australia and you're not prepared to pay quite a lot on postage you might be better off finding someone local.
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