BEIGE DENIAL JUMPER.

Ellen got a couple of inches into this jumper before admitting that the yarn, although washable, was too hideous to waste her time on. It was destined for her boyfriend but she couldn't do that to him....

PERVERSE PURPLE NUMBER.

Ellen is giving away her perverse purple angora jumper. She loved the colour, loved the pattern, loved the yarn and couldn't wait to wear it. A joy to knit, and yet she put it down two years ago and never picked it up again. She wanted to look like a sexy cookie monster but thinks that deep down she didn't deserve it.  

Can anyone help Ellen with this fantasy? There is enough yarn and a pattern to finish it......

MRS. MINIVER'S PETULANT SOCK.

Ellen dropped a few stitches and refuses to pick them up again, partly because she can't remember who the sock was for in the first place. Ellen says it was possibly a 'wait and see who it fits job' which, it would seem, it is!

Ingrid in Waterlooville tackled the petulant grey sock. She explains what happened..

"I was thinking about relationships and how two people can become very interdependent on one another. Also about what we bring to a relationship. There is a geometry problem called Mrs. Miniver's Problem that is about over lapping circles. It has a basis in a story....

is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

The sock pattern lent itself to this idea rather well, as instead of finishing the toe, I knit another heal and up the leg, so it would be a metaphor for a relationship between two people. I interpreted the idea of the circles into knitting by making the circles 3-D, turning them on their sides and making staggered transitions rather than a venn diagram idea. I wanted to make the transition between one sock and the other pretty obvious so I used the contrasting yarn, and also (in somewhat of a stereotype I admit) made a female sock. Actually while I was making it, it was more about the relationship between the origional sock maker and me, si I made the second sock to be the one that I would wear (that is to say an emerald green sock with a frilly cuff).

It is perhaps a warning not to get too hung up on one another or you might not have enough of yourself left to keep adding anything to that relationship. I rather like that nobody can wear it. That it's something that is generally thought of as a practical garment, but I've been able to make into a piece of impractical art. I think it might be part of a series."

Wow...Ingrid....thank you so very much for these lovely thoughts.

PURPLE EXPERIMENT.

Dorothy and her daughter have struggled with this cardigan. They were given the purple yarn, which was a bit to bright and scratchy so they mixed it with a navy blue wool. Blue did soften the colour but not the texture, which is rather rough.  Dorothy's daughter knitted up the cardigan but got stuck on how to finish the neckline, which due to it's roughness, curls up. There was some indecision as to how the bottom ribbing should be, as it seemed too long, so they'd started to hem it.  With the hem and the collar still not working, Dorothy thought it best to un ravel the whole thing and use the yarn for something else, so she made an incision in the right front panel, and started to un ravel, but that wasn't working either so she has donated the whole thing to UFO administration. 

WOULD THESE FIT ANYONE?

Sue's aunty in Wales can't remember which doll this was meant for, or whether the doll is still with the family.

2 WHITE LEGS.

Well we think they are legs, but as I said, we shouldn't say what we think, it is what you think that matters.

YELLOW SOCK LIKE THINGS.

Sue's aunty knitted these. We don't want to say  'yellow socks '  because it might spoil your imagination! Two yellow sock like things are ready for any number of new lives.