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I had a lot of white angora yarn, but not enough for an entire sweater.  I finally decided to create this sweater using the 100% angora for the bodice and 100% linen for the off-the-shoulder sleeves.  To give it some more panache, I added the knitted bobble clusters of grapes made out of the linen with angora leaves and vines.  It looks fabulous with a long black skirt and a strand of pearls. Click here to see the whole thing.
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With a Twist > MacKay Tartan Golf Club Cover - 2005 (2) > 100_4002.jpg

My father-in-law is a golf addict now that he has retired.  I decided to hand-knit a couple of golf club covers as his birthday gift this year.  Of course I just had to use his Scottish heritage as the focal point in my design, especially since my in-laws belong to a "Scottish" country club in Florida. :)

To ensure that I  matched the colors in the MacKay tartan exactly, I took my plaque of the MacKay Family Crest with me to my least favorite local yarn shop in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.  With a lot of searching, I finally found some wool yarn that was an exact match to the small swatch on my crest.

The wool that I used for this particular golf club cover was:

  1. Brown Sheep Company Lamb's Pride in Deep Pine (85% wool/ 15% mohair)
  2. Brown Sheep Company Lamb's Pride in Onyx (85% wool/ 15% mohair)
  3.  Plymouth Yarn Co. Galway in Dark Navy Blue (100% wool)
I then had to chart the MacKay tartan to ensure that the plaid was the correct size.  I knit the pattern on circular needles  and then duplicate stitched the extra colors to finish the the tartan.