Yes, a Mary Maxim picture sweater. Of my cat. The cat given to me by my ex; the sweater kit was a gift from his parents, a month before the demise of our long term relationship. I finished this spring of 95.
The photo on the left shows my attempt at sewing the shoulder seams. I got one shoulder done like that, after many attempts, but could NOT get the other shoulder to look the same. Finally, somehow, it worked, and I had two matching, although strange, shoulder seams. The other photo shows what happens if you don't cast off in ribbing by ribbing. I added the grey stripe--again, I just had to modify the pattern. As well, I didn't fold the collar down inwards and sew it down; it seemed too bulky. The other lovely details are the unmatched neck decreases, not fully fashioned, and that attractive hole on the right from picking up the neckband sts.I wore this sweater (somewhat) proudly, answering the question a million times "Is that a picture of your cat?". How clever was I to have knitted a picture of my very own cat, LOL!
2 comments:
I bet people didn't see the "design features" you see. My SIL, who loves cats, would wear that sweater.
Why is it called a Mary Maxim picture sweater? I mean, I know MM sells yarn and stuff; they send me a catalog now and then. Do they create some sort of sweater kit from a photo you send them?
Mary Maxim used to sell ALOT of sweater kits with all sorts of pictures. Trains, dogs, cats, construction trucks...they seemed to have a kit for a sweater with just about any picture you could imagine. If you went to their store (Paris, Ontario), they'd make up the kit with whatever colours you wanted; by catalogue I think you could only choose the main colour. They were instantly recognizable by other knitters as being a "Mary Maxim kit". Now adays, they only have a few kits available, mainly for kids.
I have seen at a knitter's fair a small company that was doing the same sort of thing. She had a huge binder of animals, things, etc that you could buy the pattern for, I think. Perhaps made in a nicer, and finer, yarn than the Mary Maxim worsted weight would have helped this sweater, LOL.
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