Firstly, I do hope Martha has seen the replies to her christening gown question over on lace. Even though she asked about it on chat, it's getting a larger audience on lace.
Secondly the discussion on UFOs over on lace has prompted me to ask for help here because this isn't lace related. I have a quantity of single different coloured whole balls of mohair (apart from a few in black for cuffs, bottom edge and neck). It's not even a UFO because I've had them for at least 18 years and haven't even started making anything with them. The plan was to make a multi-coloured sweater with a zig-zag pattern, but my hands won't let me pick up stitches from the side edge as is needed for the pattern I have. What I'm looking for is a simple random patchwork-type pattern for a sweater with multi-coloured squares/rectangles as I think I could probably still manage to knit something like that in short bursts. I could work one out for myself, but that would take time to work out the area that one ball would cover - I'd rather spend that time lacemaking if someone knows the source of a ready-made pattern. The alternative is to wait for inspiration and try using them to make something in bobbin lace, but I think it would be very difficult to handle. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
