As promised, here are some shots of me and the lace cardigan.
It’s meant to be worn open and doesn’t close in the front at all. It works well with jeans and a black tank top, I think, but could certainly be worn with something a little more dressy.
I just loved knitting this cardigan with a hand-dyed semi-solid yarn. It’s quite pleasing to see the variation in colour in the stockinette portion of the cardigan, and yet it doesn’t in any way detract from the lace patterning. The variation between the two skeins I used was barely visible. However, this is not always the case, so even though I didn’t do it, it’s probably a good idea to alternate skeins. Out of the four skeins of Skinny Bugga! I had to play with, three were quite similar and the fourth was visibly darker, and had I used that one I definitely would have had to alternate skeins.
On a completely different note: can you tell spring is coming? I just LOVE this time of year, when the leaves are starting to open and everything is bright green. If you look really carefully on the top picture, you can also see last years’ bright red cranberries…. I guess it wasn’t a harsh winter, so the birds didn’t eat them all.
The Lace Cardigan is finished! Since I don’t have company at the moment, I can’t model it. So only have a picture of the cardigan on a hanger. But I’ll rectify that later – I promise.
This lace cardigan is my own design, and used only two skeins of Skinny Bugga! from the Sanguine Gryphon (for size 36″). I was surprised that I only needed two (I had FOUR to play with, so now I have to dream up another project with the other two skeins). But the yardage was very generous, and I even had a little bit left-over from the two skeins.
The body of the cardigan is knit in one piece up to the armholes. It is then separated and you knit the back first, and then each of the fronts. The small lace edging along the front wraps around the collar. The sleeves are set-in sleeves, and knit flat starting at the lace cuff. It’s basically an adult size version of the cardigan I knit for my daughter last fall, with a few modifications and improvements.
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