Warm Toes & The Land Army

Hello, darlings!

Sorry my posting has slowed down a bit. I assure you it will pick back up in a jiffy with exciting finished objects!

As I briefly mentioned in a previous post, my current project is my very own Women’s Land Army pullover. After I bought the pants, (see “Define Obsession”) I figured it was high time for me to knit the iconic ribbed sweater.

Now, with trying to stick with my vintage knitting, finding a pattern for this sweater or anything remotely similar was harder than I thought. Turns out, there really wasn’t one. All of the original sweaters were machine made because, well, no one had time to hand knit thousands of sweaters every few months. I found a sweater via etsy titled Paton & Baldwin’s 2792 Women’s Service Land Army Pullover and Stockings hoping it would be like the sweater, but it really wasn’t. I am using it as a reference for knitting mine, but making heavy modifications to make it look accurate. I hope, dear reader, you don’t see this as cheating with my challenge. The way I see it, vintage ladies would have modified a pattern to make it look more like what they wanted too!

Here it is so far!…. Doesn’t look like much. Really, it’s just a big, wooly, ribbed blob at the moment. I am almost done with the body and the sleeves won’t take too long, so I am hoping to have it finished by the first week of May! I have really big plans for the photo shoot, so stay tuned. 😉

Apart from the sweater, I am decided to impulsively try socks again with my dear knitting friend, Anna. I have knitted 2 1/2 pairs of socks, and only have bad memories from them. But, after finishing one sock from this sweet 1953 pattern, my new verdict is that I quite like socks! 

I am using Anzula Dreamy, which is a merino, cashmere, & silk blend, and my oh my the name of this yarn speaks for itself. It is dreaaammy. It is so soft, and certainly helping elevate my love of socks, especially these ones.

xoxo

Sydney

define “obsession…”

Hello beautiful kittens!

Thank you all for being so patient with me on this blouse. I have just reached the armholes (hooray!) and am knitting as furiously as I can in between finals and studying. But I wanted to use this post to enlighten you on my current forever obsession. World War II’s Women’s Land Army.

Ever since I spontaneously watched BBC’s Land Girls, I have had a deep fascination with British women in WWII and the darling ladies of the Women’s Land Army. For those who don’t know, the Women’s Land Army employed women to work the fields while the male farmers were off to war. Many city-dwelling women didn’t know what they were getting themselves into, hours of rigorous work rain or shine.

  So… this one day I decided to check what eBay had under Women’s Land Army… bad idea for my coin purse…

Let me show you what I got, dearie:

Yes, those are REAL British WWII Women’s Land Army Corduroy Pants!!

…….REAL!!!

..did I mention they are real?

These just arrived today, and I can’t quite bring myself to take them off. I am not ashamed to admit that I am wearing them as I blog. This is also a great time to announce my next project! After much searching online, I have finally found a vintage pattern of… (you can probably guess) A Land Girl Sweater!! I can’t wait to start it!

xoxo

Sydney