At long last I finally completed my cardigan!
I'm so happy it's finished!
I worked on it mostly during my lunch breaks at work, ignoring a few odd looks and comments but I wont let that stop me doing what I enjoy. Not everyone understands the joy of creating or the addiction of knitting!
I chose this pattern for the simple patterned yoke to improve my skills. I haven't done a patterned project for a few years. I was concerned the end result would look a bit old fashioned so I chose Lincrafts Splendour yarn to attempt to jazz it up a bit.
I am happy with the end result and I feel the star button helps to make it look more modern.
The pattern is a Lion brand Yarn Company free pattern
I thought I didn't have much to go at this point. Ha ha. Wasn't even half way through!
I'm sure I could have done it in just over a week if I worked on it every day but life gets in the way.
The pattern starting to take shape!!
Getting exciting now!
starting to look like a cardigan!
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This is when I thought it was hard. I had nearly 200 stitches and I'm used to having under 100! I struggled with the K 2 before the YO. I couldn't get my needle through all the loops without picking up a foreign loop. I also had a minor issue with my yarn pulling and then having big fat pieces that didn't sit well in the patterned sections. There is a big red bit in the front of the yoke. Suppose that's what you get when you buy wool on sale! I ended up with a dropped stitch. I'm not sure which issue cause it but I was able to fix it after I had finished. It's pretty hard to find the fault now. |
This is all the knitting completed. Now to assemble it!! Yay!
No not 4 arms!!
Pretty cleaver!
And even better there were only 2 seams to sew!
All that hard work paid off!!
All finished!!!
I'm much happier than I expected to be! Now I just need some one to model it for me!!
Not sure if I can part with this one!
That's so cute!!!
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