Highlighting November activities – I’ve recently updated and relaunched the pattern for my Gussie design, a sport weight lace pullover. Originally published in 2011, I reformatted the instructions and schematics, and added metrics with a row tracking tool – just to save knitters the step.
Gussie c 2018
While I was at it, I re-imagined her as Chunkie Gussie, recalculated stitches for aran weight yarn, and launched that pattern too.
It’s fun to see how a simple change in the yarn effects the overall character of the design.
Chunkie Gussie c 2018
Which brings me next to their namesake – my aunt, my great great aunt, that is, and according to legend, our family’s wild child – Augusta Elisabetha Steig, aka Gussie.
In these photos taken around 1905, she would have been about 19 years old, and since the only images I have of her are at this age, there she stays for me.
I’m thinking of her now, forever young – and wonderfully wild.
You go girl.