It's the Must-Have-taken-a-year-to-finish Cardigan!
Here I am, rocking the self-timer on my camera to show you my new sweater. Did you even remember that I was making this? I knit the pieces last winter in Taipei but never got around to finishing it. I have since come to enjoy blocking and have gotten over my fear of seaming, so it was time. High time. Last night I sat down with the blocked pieces and all the supplies and got to seaming and knitting the button band. It took a lot longer than I'd figured it would (I may or may not have been up till four), but I finished all the knitting and sewing last night. This morning I added the buttons -- nice wooden buttons that actually came with the Peace Fleece Everyday Cardigan kit. Et voila!
I'm head over heels in love with this sweater. I'm a big cardigan fan, and I love how this one fits: not tight, not too loose, with longish arms. Here are the specs:
Pattern: Must Have Cardigan, from Patons Street Smart bookletI know I shouldn't be so surprised, since I used the recommended yarn, but my sweater looks exactly like the one in the pattern book! Whee! I'm so pleased with this sweater -- and with the fact that I just went outside without a coat and survived -- that I feel like dancing.
Size: large
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool Merino (colour: Natural Mix)
Needles: various lengths of 5.0mm circulars
8 comments:
it's beautiful, and i just got my street smart book yesterday (though, i don't know when i'll cast on because i also just started another patons sweater pattern).
how has the classic merino held up? do you think it's a good value yarn and would you use it again?
thank you,
d
Gorgeous!
Gorgeous!
Heh! I love the Happy-and-in-Love-with-m'fancy-new-sweater dance shot! Congratulations!
I'd bust a move too if I had knit a cardigan like that!
i may or may not have been up til 4 this morning too. had you known me, you could have called. i was knitting. ;)
your cardi rocks. fabulous!
I just started my own cardi from this pattern and it is pretty challenging. Rock on and dance away that you are done!It looks great.
i love, love, love your MHC! amazing stitch definition, gorgeous all around. when i want to show people the sweater i am obsessing on, i show them your pictures. (ummmm.... i even borrowed one - credited to you for my blog. hope you don't mind terribly.) i'm going to start mine for the ravelympics and am chomping at the bit.
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