Tag: quirky

Bright Stripes for Little Brother

Nanna says she’s started Little Brother’s pullover and it’s looking good so far. She thought the colours might be a bit much, but they seem to be working. Little Brother really wanted triangles, and Nanna says she’ll try to work some in, but in the meantime, he thinks the stripes are cool.

(By the way, Nanna says you can see Big Brother wearing his Charcoal & Mint jersey here.)

This is what she’s done so far:

Charcoal and Mint (updated)

Nanna says she’s finally finished Big Brother’s jersey. She started it last year! Nanna says it was finished because it was a vest but Big Brother insisted he wanted it to have sleeves – and Big Brother is very good at insisting. So it had to wait until all her other stuff was done.

Now she’s gonna knit a jumper for Little Brother and Nanna says she’ll let him choose the colours. His favourites right now are blue, orange and red. He’s gonna look like a wonky traffic light!

Nanna says Little Brother is just the sort of Colourful Kid she likes to do her Quirky Knitting for. But she loves the colours Big Brother chose, too.

She’s also “stash busting” which Nanna says means using up all her old wonky wool. The orangey green thing might be a bag.

“Nanna says” stuff about her quirky colourful knitting (& grandsons)

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can you guess what this is?

Nanna’s knitted a LOT OF HATS but they’re not for Little Brother – who doesn’t like hats, anyway – or for Big Brother who already has a snuggly purple hat.

The hats Nanna’s been knitting are to give away to kids who don’t have a Nanna or Mum who knits for them; or who need to stay at someone else’s place and don’t have time to take their clothes (Foster Hope). We’re lucky coz we’ve got lots of clothes at home and some at Nanna’s house, too.

So, can you guess what Nanna’s been knitting just now?

Here’s an idea: Nanna says it’s similar to – that means, kind of like – another one she knitted, but this one’s smaller. We’ll show you:

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It’s going to be a hoodie!

It’s a bit like the tunic Nanna’s finished, that’s ready to buy:

 

your turn! will Nanna follow the ‘structions?

Now the chunky blue rug is finished, Nanna’s knitting something you might like to buy. Guess what it’s going to be?

Will it be orange? Will it be quirky? Will Nanna follow the pattern? (I told her, “It’s very ‘portant to follow the ‘structions, Nanna. When she read them, the model she built for me wasn’t lopsided.)