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Three French Hens
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me –
THREE FRENCH HENS
And while those cute little hens were hatching out of their eggs I pulled St. Brigid out of hibernation and made her into a Euro size pillow.
St. Brigid is an Alice Starmore pattern found in one of my favorite books, Aran Knitting. I love this sweater but I jumped in way over my head when I started her back in 2007. She hibernated for a year or so and when I picked her up again I quickly realized there were some serious issues with gauge. I never knit a gauge swatch and my tension had changed significantly over the years. I couldn’t bear to frog these beautiful cables and decided this knitting could be turned into a lovely pillow, and a LARGE pillow at that. It wasn’t quite as painful as I thought it was going to be. In fact, I’m off to search through baskets to see if their are any other UFOs that might prefer to become pillows……..
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really love that pillow!!
I love the way you are showcasing your projects. Very
clever and cute. I also love the Anne Geddes, 12 Days
of Christmas. And of course your projects are great.
What an incredibly clever idea! and … a simply lovely pillow. Thank you for sharing your knitting over this
past year – best wishes for a happy & peaceful New
Year.
Fantastic pillow! Aran knit pillows are hot decorating items right now, so you’re right in style. Much better to make it into a pillow than frog it.
You’ve given me an idea. I have had the Aran Knitting book for years, but have not knit anything from it yet and I also have a few skeins of Rowan Magpie yarn that is not enough for a sweater but may be enough for a pillow!
I’ll start with the previous two posts. I Love Those Hats!
Your new pillow is the best answer to the issues you faced with the sweater. It is so gorgeous.
Great idea! The pillow is fantastic.
Good plan, the pillow. I have an old cabled sweater that got a bit felted by its previous owner–didn’t have the heart to trash it, can’t unravel it–maybe pillow-it ☺ Happy New Year
That was an ingenious idea! It would have caused me actual pain to think about your frogging all those gorgeous cables.
That is a great idea! What a good use for an abandoned project.