If you follow my blog regularly, you may have noticed that I took the month of August off from blogging. I decided that instead of focusing on knitting and blogging, I wanted to focus on the last month of summer with my family. My oldest child starts preschool next week and our entire schedule will be changing. I wanted to spend my days running through the sprinkler, playing in the sandbox, chasing fireflies, lighting sparklers, and just enjoying my kids. I spent a lot less time knitting than I usually do and therefore, didn't have much to write about. I hope you'll forgive me. At least I'm back with a pretty great FO.
I finished my Larch Cardigan. It was a test in patience and perseverance, to say the least. It took me about 3 weeks longer than I expected to knit this sweater. Maybe that was in part to my reduced knitting time or maybe it was because I re-knit the collar twice. Twisted rib on size 5 needles wasn't so nice on the hands and caused me to take even more breaks than I wanted, but I didn't want to hurt my hands. I also learned how to do top-down set-in sleeves (the pattern calls for bottom-up seamed sleeves). Full disclosure - I was a little intimidated to do the sleeves, since I've never done set-in sleeves on my own before. Going rouge! Luckily, I found a really fantastic tutorial on YouTube (part 1, part 2) that made it easy to do, once I found the courage. You can read all of my modifications on my project page.
Pattern: Larch Cardigan by Amy Christoffers
Yarn: Madelinetosh 80/10/10 Sport in Grasshopper
Needles: US 5 (3.75mm), US 7 (4.5mm)
That is a lovely shade of green and very well knitted. I should think it will last for years.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful! I just love that shade of green!
ReplyDeleteI love this, especially the collar. Great job!
ReplyDeleteOoh, I like this! The color is beautiful too!
ReplyDeleteIt looks amazing! It's the second Larch I see this morning, maybe it's a sign, at least I'll add it to my queue! ;-) I love the yarn and color you chose!
ReplyDeleteI adore your work: lovely pattern and beautiful yarn :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I love the colour and it looks great on you.
ReplyDeleteJenn,
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and your gorgeous knitting, you are so talented and I wanted to pass on the Liebster Award to you. :)
For more information:
http://ayarnfullife.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-liebster-award.html
~ Emily