The Cashmere cardigan is finished at last and I'm very pleased with it. The yarn is Colourmart Pure cashmere fingering weight and I got 300g of it, which is two cones. It didn't seem like it would be enough but I've actually got 125g left. If I am careful, and eke this out with some lace weight held triple (which is the same yarn as the fingering except the fingering was twisted up triple when I got it), I should have enough yarn for a sweater to go under the cardigan.
I washed the skeins this time before I knit the garment and this worked better. I didn't calculate the shrinkage on the Romy cardigan correctly and it came out a bit short when washed. This was much better. Less room for errors.
I didn't exactly work from a pattern. I loosely based this on some of the details in the Revival Pattern by Fallmasche (available on Ravelry) but worked reasonably far off pattern. Revival is a double knit sweater which this clearly isn't. Its another contiguous method garment and I love the way this is totally seamless and can be tried on as I go along.
The yarn was so soft that the button bands, no matter how hard I tried, came out very wobbly and weren't fit to be seen. I've sewn them back to the inside of the cardigan and attached crochet loops to close the cardigan. The buttons are a set of vintage, toning ones from Duttons. They are quite sparkly and really lift the cardigan and make it look a bit more exciting. No button is the same but they all work really well together.
I'm looking forward to wearing this when I go back to work. I'm sure its going to be really, really warm
In other news, SWAP started over on Stitchers Guild today. I've started my first garment, a boiled wool jacket in navy blue. I had it all cut out ready to go and started sewing this morning. I've got the whole of the jacket body sewn and the sleeves are in. I've some more finishing to do on the inside, the collar to attach, buttons, button holes, shoulder pads and then need to find/decide on some trim for round the edge and on the cuffs. Hopefully I will get the jacket as far as the trim stage tomorrow and if I have any spare time after that, will probably start sewing the cream wool jersey overdress, since that is cut out already and I have the trim for that.
3 comments:
Very very pretty buttons! That's a gorgeous cardigan!
A beautiful cardigan. Washing the skeins prior to knitting is something I had never thought of trying, I will have to remember this next time I knit with a loosely plied yarn.
I like your crochet button loop idea, button bands can be very trying in a soft luscious knit, very clever fix.
This cardigan looks brilliant - excellent work, well done!!! Love the buttons as well...
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