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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:02 pm Post subject: Knit your own pineapple
Just finished this and thought I'd show it off a bit. The pattern is based on an original one from 1840, when pineapple shaped reticules were all the rage in the Regency period. This one is in pure silk yarn, knit on 2mm needles, and although its not a complicated pattern, it did take a fair while to do, I reckon there was around 25 hours work went into this.

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
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Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:04 pm Post subject:
Your work never fails to amaze me Sally. Beautiful. EV

BadgerFace

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Location: Sussex

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:05 pm Post subject:
WOW, amazing and very beautiful

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:05 pm Post subject:
It's lovely, and that, but does it do anything? I mean, can it be fashioned as a hat, or open to be a purse? Or even used to carry a pineapple in? Looks like a lot of work, and it made me smile.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:05 pm Post subject:
Wonderful! Where did you find the pattern?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:06 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

It's lovely, and that, but does it do anything? I mean, can it be fashioned as a hat, or open to be a purse? Or even used to carry a pineapple in? Looks like a lot of work, and it made me smile.

Its a handbag. Surely everyone needs a handbag shaped like a pineapple

Can't you just see yourself taking your sandwiches to the allotment in one of these?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:08 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Wonderful! Where did you find the pattern?

Its available here as the original text and a modernisation, but beware if you use this version there are some very odd idiosyncracies that will need ironing out as you go along, the modernisation as written has lost something in translation and is fine as a rough guideline, but a bit unsatisfactory if follewed word for word
https://www.gancedo.eu/Pine_Apple_Bag.pdf

Nick

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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:10 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Nick wrote:

It's lovely, and that, but does it do anything? I mean, can it be fashioned as a hat, or open to be a purse? Or even used to carry a pineapple in? Looks like a lot of work, and it made me smile.

Its a handbag. Surely everyone needs a handbag shaped like a pineapple

Can't you just see yourself taking your sandwiches to the allotment in one of these?

I am as likely to knit a pineapple shaped handbag as I am to go to an allotment, that's for sure.

gil
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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 4:32 pm Post subject:
That's lovely, Sally ! Wow ! Looks very intricate.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 6:54 pm Post subject:
Do you feel a range of fruit accessories coming on Sally? A.

Chickem

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Location: Sunny Devon

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 6:58 pm Post subject:
Is it for a new hat? you would make a fantastic Carman Miranda Sally

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 7:28 pm Post subject:
That is just so fantastic Sally. What women wouldn't want a pineapple shaped reticule?

naomij

Joined: 03 Mar 2011
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Location: Kent coast

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 9:14 pm Post subject:
That is truly awesome, you should be chuffed! OT but feeling like just a teeeeeny bit less of a newbie cos when I saw the title and your name, I just knew what it would be it's fab to see one in bright colours, rather than a dingy old one in a textile book. Do you think theirs would have been this bright? I guess so! It's just amazing to imagine.

maryf

Joined: 25 Oct 2009
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Location: suffolk

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 9:15 pm Post subject:
Ooohh that's lovely, much more intricate than I have the patience for, but I have just crocheted some fungi

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Tue May 10, 11 9:39 pm Post subject:
The pineapple reticule is wonderful. Full marks! Like the crocheted fungi as well, maryf. Henry

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