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Garfield
Garfield
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Nice going. I've finished a baby blanket - will post a photo tomorrow.
jabberknit
jabberknit
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Excellent start, EP!
HellsBells
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I'm driving myself mad here. Does anyone else remember these kits form the 60s/70s?
Yarn and a pattern for a jumper, sold with a skirt length of fabric, wool, I think, possible tweed?
Everyone looks at each as if I'm mad when I mention them, but I'm sure they existed
northernslowcoach
northernslowcoach
Mar 2018
11:16am, 11 Mar 2018
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I think I remember wearing them!
The skirt was attached to a polyester vest
Cyclops
Cyclops
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I remember them, HB!
Meglet
Meglet
Mar 2018
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Good grief that sounds hideous! My mum didn’t knit much then but she did but a lot of stuff from Clothkits.
Meglet
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*buy
Cyclops
Cyclops
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I've tried googling but all I've found is a mumsnet thread of people complaining about how nasty the vest fabric was!!

We had a lot of Clothkits too, Meglet.
HellsBells
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the ones I remember didn't have a vest - it was just a fabric length with no pattern, I think the assumption was that any woman knew how to run up a skirt. i think maybe one of the big wool mills did them
Cyclops
Cyclops
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Are we mixing two things together? I remember wool fabric and matching yarn and those skirts on a vest.

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