‘Inspiration’ in the October issue reminded me of the dressing gown I made for my son when he was about seven years old. I hadn't long had an electronic machine and decided to design a large dragon for the back. I had a china dragon plate, so drew the design on to paper then on to a Mylar sheet. I took the dressing gown on a trip to Weaver Knits to buy some more yarn and showed it to Mary Weaver whose comment I was very pleased hear when she said “it’s a very balanced design”. Well, I suppose it was not altogether mine but I did draw it for the Mylar sheet. I do hope Mary is well, she did so much for machine knitting.

I enclose a couple of photos and a copy of the Mylar sheet. As you can see from the photos I just could not part with the dressing gown and it’s now being modelled by my grandson Sean. The garment was made with Argyll Ferndale 4-ply and knitted using my Knit Radar. It’s just a long length V-neck cardi with stocking stitch gold edged bands. My son is now 39 this year. Gosh was it really that long ago, seems like yesterday. Thank you so much for keeping the magazine going I look forward to it each month and will put the binders on my present list. Best wishes for your future health and happiness.
Yours sincerely, Carol Cochran