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Patch by Ann
What an interesting project! I liked making things from a very young age and years on. My mother let me be in charge of Christmas decorations etc and in a craft shop she would buy anything I thought I might need. - She would knit all the vests and tops and shorts for me my sister and my three brothers - usually all in the same colour so she could spot us all on the beach... - Then the family fortunes changed and she had to go out to work so I took on the job to knit for the family. I used to persuade a brother to walk in front of me so that I could knit as we walked along - we lived in the country 2 1/2 miles from school. - In my teens I knitted a very complicated jacket for my Mother as a Christmas present - a collar with a mitered edge and inset pockets! At teacher training college I realised you could knit schulptural things. I knitted pillars and boats and lamp shades and fun designs to frame and put on the wall - houses and views etc and then on to abstracts first enjoying the colours and textures. This little sample includes mixed yarns or dyed yarns including wool, mohair, cotton, metalised (wrong word) and acrilic based on an original design of wool shop shelves where the wool is stored for sale. That design was a silk painting of squares in outline and many shades of the same colours in each square - mine actually and from there just circles floating...