Reunited
One of the things we were looking at for the display of picture sweaters at Yorkshire Wool Week was a child's sweater with Postman Pat in his van on the front. Some of the items in the collection have a pattern with them, or a note of the pattern that was used or who designed it, but not this one. Then yesterday I was sorting a box of Wendy patterns at Lee Mills, saw the pattern and recognised it. I found another pattern, too, that was obviously designed to go with it, to knit Postman Pat himself and his black-and-white cat - both patterns were designed by Joy Gammon.
Although it was satisfying to be able to reunite the sweater with its pattern, I am not actually very fond of Postman Pat. We once drove all the way through France, from Boulogne to Provence, with only a cassette tape of Postman Pat stories to entertain our daughter, who was then about four. After a while, we realised that the tape was faulty and had the same two stories on both sides. (It took a while to realise, because all Postman Pat stories sound pretty much the same - people talk about the weather and say "Cheerio!" a lot.) That sort of thing rots your brain.
I made that sleeveless jumper and the Pat figure and his cat for one of my nephews (probably sometime in the 90s but can't be sure, it depends which nephew) Think I might have made the figures again for my eldest too who really liked Pat - and being autistic actually liked the repetition!
ReplyDeleteI do recall that when our daughter was in a Postman Pat phase you find yourself saying "Cheerio!" and talking about things being "real 'andy". I can see that the figures would be quite lovable, though.
DeleteI knit that Postman Pat doll about 14 years ago. My husband was a postman when my kids were very young, so Postman Pat videos were very popular in our house. The knitted version was a hit with the kids, so much so that by the time he went to the big postbus in the sky he was practically squashed flat as the kids liked to lie on him when watching the videos. The Jess pattern that came with it, however, was awful--a furry blob with no limbs--so I purchased the separate Jess pattern, and made several of those over the years.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that - I love the story of 'flat Pat'.
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