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Knitted together

My nana is a really big knitter. She knits all of my jerseys. I’ll send her a pattern — she lives on the Gold Coast — and she’ll just knit one up. I’ve always got her working.

We use mostly 1940s patterns; I really like the shape of them, and because I wear a lot of high-waisted stuff, I like how they are cropped.

My favourite is a grey embroidered jersey (). It’s just so cool. It shows her embroidery skills as

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