My oldest daughter accidentally washed a GAP multi color stripped sweater that was 50% wool so you guessed it it shrunk. To the size of too small to fit even my youngest daughter. It wasn't felted so much that I was not able to frog the sweater. So I took it apart on Friday and Saturday of last week and wound the balls of yarn up. Then looked for a pattern I could use. Found one and then I added Lion brand alpine wool for the background color that I already had as it was the same weight as the wool from the sweater and I thought it might stretch it to go farther than the size of the original sweater. It is just too bad that I forgot to take a picture of the original sweater before I dismantled it. I seem to be on a kick to make things for fall at the moment not sure how that happened but it is fine with me.
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My light blue background is the black in the original pattern and the white in the original pattern is my colors.
Clever you. What a great rescue operation.
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