Searching for a memory

 Back, when we lived in the US, one of the summer's we came home, I fell in love with a sweater I've seen in one of the magazines. I asked my mother to knit it for me. I bought the yarn (I also rember exactly where did I buy it- the building where the store was was taken down since and there is a small park there now), and she did. When we last left Miami, we did not know, that we will not go back, and though we brought home a lot of things, we also stored and left a lot of stuff there. Including some of my crafts, cross-stitched tablecloths, my rollerskate, and this sweater. THAT SWEATER. That was the last thing my mom knitted for me, and it was goegeous. And it is lost forever. My mother died about 25 years ago, and I still want that sweater.

For many years I've tried to find, at least the pattern, so I could knit it again, and I leafed through many, many magazines to no avail.

After my mom's death, her knitting patterns were packed up, and put in storage at the summerhouse of PJ, but when a few years later, after we separated, I asked for them, he only gave me a few crumpled pages. 

I asked knitting groups on FB, if anyone has magazines from that period, and some did leafed through a few of them, but I could not find THAT one. 

I don't know why, but it still weighs on me, and from time to time, I gather up momentum, and start the search again. 

It was a "norveigian" pattern - stranded pattern, on white base color and blue contrast color. It was a summer issue of a magazine, that was available in Hungarian. It was an allover pattern, rather large scale (not like the tiny, peerie flowers of the real fair isle patterns), also rather busy, as I remember my mom saying that there were rows, where she had to change colors at every stitch. I don't know which technique she used for stranded, but I guess, not the two handed one, I knit with. 

I also remember, that it was a summer issue, a "waterfront" summer navy themed page, and most probably between 1990 and 1996, because I had that sweater with me in Miami for a while, and there were people who would not believe me it was handknitted, because the knitting was so even, and I had to show the wrong side with the floats to prove (my mom was a really good knitter). 

This time, I started to look through Ravelry's database, they have about 487 pages full of stranded patterns. I am at about through the first 100 page, but things go slowly, because whenever I find a design I like, I'll go, check the designer, so maybe I can find if not that pattern, but something similar... 

In the meanwhile, to Norbert's suggestion I went to "Arcanum" a page where they keep a ton of scanned newspaper, from the 19th century to up to date, it is actually a great resource for historical research too. When N. first said, I should check that, I was like NAH, why would they have a handcraft magazine digitized, but, actually, they do. I checked THE hungarian craft magazine. It was a comprehensive magazine, they had knitting patterns, embroidery, sewing, even bobbin lace, etc. So I checked the issues from 1990-1996, and there is only one that is missing from the scans : June 1994 (which is just about the time I might have asked my mom... though I am not sure that was when the pattern was printed). 

Going through those magazines were a real Nostalgia-trip, as I do remember so many of those pictures/patterns, and every time I turned the page, I expected to find "my" sweater on the nect page... and it was such a dissapointment that I did not.

There were a couple of other magazines available around that time, like the Burda-Verena, the Sabrina/Sandra magazines. So I looked through their Ravelry pages too, but there is not everything uploaded there either. From sabrina mostly patterns after 1996-1998 that are available. 

Nem tudom hol, és mit próbálhatnék még, azon kívül, hogy tovább böngészem a közel 500 Rav oldalt a 23480 találatával (női, pulóver, stranded keresőszavakra).

Mindesetre itt van pár Rav kép, ami arra a pulcsira emlékeztet, bár ezek határozottan nem *azok*

Ezeknél nyáriasabb, fehérebb volt, kevésbé geometrikus, sokkal inkább lágyabb, organikusabb, virágosabb vonú minta, a fejemben még a francia liliom motívuma van a csillagok helyén, de lehet, hogy ezt már csak beképzelem. 

Talán ez a fenti még a legközelebbi, de sima kerek nyaka volt és ejtett, szügletes válla. És nyéri, pamutpulcsi volt.

A jó oldala, hogy, ahogy a Rav ilyen mintáit lapozom, egy csomó olyat találtam, ami nagyon tetszik, és a tervezők egyébb munkáiba is belepillantva... azt hiszem évtizedekig el vagyok látva munícióval a hétfői mintamustrához. 

U.i: Ha van ilyen 1990-1995 közötti magazinotok és átlapoznátok- megköszönném. Ha valaki megtalálja *azt* a mintát jutalmat kap. Ha valakinek van még ötlete hol, hogyan keressem, ne tartsa magában. Köszönöm.