A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from a kind blog-reader letting me know about a fabric sale in a private home nearby. An elderly woman had moved into a rest home and her family were clearing out her house for sale. She had loved to sew and knit and they were looking to sell a rather huge stash of fabric and yarn. I bought some lovely old pieces of fabric, and just before leaving, I got talking to one of her sons. He showed me a bag filled with knitted pieces and off-cuts and asked if I wanted to have a go sewing with them. They looked to me like vast machine-knitting experiments but he said he remembered his mother buying the pieces in long tubes, then machine-sewing childrens' vests from them. I couldn't resist buying these knitted pieces even though a giant bag of projects was not something I needed.
I gave them a wash and a sort-through and made some hot water bottle covers with them. It's such fun playing with the beautifully-coloured pieces, and every cover is a unique thing. (I used the ribbed bands from the knitting to make envelope closures on the back- you could make one with an old jumper, come to think of it.) One for everyone in the family, and one for the kind man who offered me the knitting. I have grand plans for the rest of the fabric and will keep you posted…
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