Hurray, it’s done! After all this time, it’s done!
Well, to be totally truthful, it was finished at the end of June. But it wasn’t until two weekends ago that spouse and I managed to coordinate our schedules for a photoshoot (my head is cut off in the photos because I hadn’t yet taken a shower that day and my hair was a mess; spouse said “Either we take these pictures now or they don’t get done,” so we took the pictures); and then it wasn’t until this past weekend that I found the time to write this blog entry and schedule it for publication.
Pattern: Wildflower Cardigan by Alana Dakos; available as a download or in the book, Coastal Knits.
Yarn: Silky Wool by Elsebeth Lavold, colorway Acorn; roughly 8 1/2 skeins, totaling 1575 yards
Size: 43″ (bust measurement)
Needles: US 1, 2, and 3 — I used Hiya Hiya Sharps circulars.
Mods: None, except adding a few more rows to make the button band wider and adding one more button.
Satisfaction with end product: I love it. It fits just right; it has the three-quarter sleeves that I love; it can be dressed up or dressed down. Now I’m just waiting for the weather to turn so I can wear it.
You can click on the big pic up there to go to my Ravelry project page. Here are some more pictures for your enjoyment. Click each of the pictures to view it larger.
To knit this, you must be prepared to face endless endless endless stockinette. A lot of Alana Dakos’s designs are like that. Her cardigans tend to be very simple in structure, with one or two special design features (like the tiny pocket and the scalloped detail at the hem and sleeve edges on this one) that stand out against the acres of stockinette. The good thing is this makes her cardigans perfect for television knitting.
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