Obsessive compulsive knitting

These two items were knitted for a graphic Design student's Graduate Exhibition. Her work was looking at OCD. The jumper has every 5th stitch missed,every 2nd row to help tell the story of a woman with a fear of the number 5. The hat has the 33rd stitch missed in the same way telling the story of another woman's fear of that number.

It was great to do work like this. I used Anne Budd Handy Book of Sweater Patterns-probably the most useful knitting book anywhere and the hat is adapted from a 1970's pattern.

The hat is knitted from machine knitting yarn I plyed together. It came from my friend's mothers stash after her mother died. She left behind a room full of yarn and knitting and sewing paraphernalia. It was great to use her yarn that she had treasured in a new way.