I started a beautiful summer cardigan last September on the way to Greece.
I love top down garments as you can design as you go along. I used some stash yarn and some great yarn I had purchased at Yarningham in Birmingham last year. A lovely vendor market held once a year in Birmingham, with a range of great independent yarn dyers.
One of the highlights at the time was saying Hi to Dani of Little Bobbins podcast who was absolutely lovely, and her wonderful Mum who was also there.
I bought a few beautiful skeins from Snuggly Stars Yarn, The Yarn Lab, Riverknits, Yarn Angels and Phileas Yarns, and they will be part of something wonderful in the future.
However for this project I used four yarns as follows:
A fingering weight, 50% SW Merino and 50% Silk in the ‘Belle’ colourway from Sable Yarns.
A fingering weight, 70% SW Merino and 30% Silk from Yarn Angels in the ‘Orchis’ colourway.
From stash:
A pure lace weight, Merino Superwash, in Malabrigo Rios, in the ‘Pink Frost’ colourway from the Wool Warehouse in Leamington Spa. (Held double)
A lace weight, Superwash Merino from Manos Del Uruguay, in the ‘Marina’ colourway from a great little wool shop called Ippikin in Much Wenlock. (Held double)
I am using 3.00 mm needles.
I did a provisional cast on as I want to knit the neck band last, hence the blue cast on you can see in the images.
I had great fun knitting this cardi which took a year and a half to complete in the end as I became so busy with this and that and other projects.
I will hopefully share some pics here. I may write up the pattern. Watch this space.
Happy Knitting!
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