Pattern: Cameo by Kim Hargreaves, from her latest book Whisper
Yarn: All Seasons Cotton, approximately 13 balls (I haven't weighed it, and a LOT of the yarn was in tiny balls, reclaimed from a frogged mitred project).
Needles: 3.50mm (went right down in size)
Started: May 2nd 2011
Finished: June 3rd 2011. Actuall knitting finished May 27th, but I didn't get around to finishing it until this week.
Mods: Just tweaked the sizing a bit. I made a smaller back, but larger fronts, and about an inch longer in length.
It's a weird design. A cropped cardigan, but with very deep raglans, and very wide sleeves, fronts narrower than the back as it's an open cardigan, isn't meant to close at the fronts.
I like it, but will probably just use it as a throw on at home. Ok, criticism here. I do not think that the yarn choice (All Seasons Cotton) does this design justice. It's an acrylic cotton blend, aran weight with NO DRAPE. With such wide sleeves it needs drape. My knitted fabric isn't too dense or stiff, despite going down needle sizes, so it's not that. The pattern makes it seem even thicker! I can see this knitted in something like Debbie Bliss's Cathay (which is a dk weight and I think discontinued now) and it would be wonderful. Just not so in ASC. Arms down, it looks ok-ish.
Arms bent, not so ok.
Oh well, at the very least I have something I can chuck on at home on cooler summer evenings. And I've used stash which I really had no expectation of using, reclaimed mitred project = lots of tiny balls! And a quick knit - I knitted a lot of this as carry along knitting which is why it wasn't finished any quicker.
I started another Kim Hargreaves cardigan last week, but the yarn (Louisa Harding's Aimee) is not knitting to tension, so it's probably going to be frogged. I either knit it again in the given yarn (which looks great on the project pages of ravelry) or do something completely different. I'm a bit taken with Ysolda's new patterns - right up my street...
I think yours looks better on you than mine does on me.....I keep mine on back of chair, and put it on mornings and evenings when I feel chilly. I do feel it is done in the wrong yarn though....
Posted by: jill | June 16, 2011 at 10:19 PM