Sweater #3 – Stornoway completed! | 8:08 am | 31 October 2005
It’s finished! It’s finished! And it fits and Dad loves it!
This was his Christmas present in 2003 – he unwrapped Alice Starmore’s Fishermen’s Sweaters, and got to pick a pattern and a color. The wool is 5-ply gansey yarn, “Frangipani” from Meade Farm in Cornwall in navy (as opposed to dark navy), and was wonderful to work with – easy on the hands, strong, clean, and not a single knot. It’s weird, after almost two years on the needles, I’m going to miss this sweater. I’ll definitely be making another one similar (for myself this time!), and definitely be using this yarn again. In the meanwhile, that damned intarsia bag must be finished, and Too Big Rogue must be sewn up, possibly felted, and then zippered. Then it’s on to Eris and a baby Dale for a newly-babied friend in Canada.
Here’s the pictures, click ‘em to enlarge.
October 31st, 2005 at 8:33 am
Aye carumba! I just noticed he’s wearing this backwards. That’s why the neck looks a little weird — there’s shaping, but it’s on the other side. D’oh!
November 20th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
STUNNING! I hadn’t checked your progress for quite some time. Just wonderful! Good job! Thank you for posting the pictures!
August 26th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Just love everything about it! Want one for myself, beautiful job.
August 26th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Thanks! It was a plaseure to work on, and I’m looking forward to making something like it for myself — and similarly for my aunt, for when she someday moves back from Ghana to Minnesota ;)
September 26th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Hi Miriam,
I found this project of yours on Ravelry and just wanted to congratulate on it. I’m making a Gansey sweater out of the same yarn (only dark navy) and also like it a lot. My sweater is probably even larger than yours so I can sympathize a lot with your feelings for it. I still love mine, but there are times when I feel a little on the edge …