I finished a thing! It's the Ardelise cardigan by Vanessa Smith, and the yarn is Cascade 220 Sport, in Dark Plum. I wanted a cardigan that goes with everything, and dark purple goes with a lot of colours - or at least it goes with the sort of shades that I wear. I've strategically photographed it to mask all the little mistakes and inconsistencies, and my great grandmother's brooch isn't just there to look pretty (though it does a fine job of that). All the little faults happened because Continue Reading
Comfort-Knitting
Sometimes, you just need a mindless comfort-knit. This fellow is going to be a cardigan, worked in 'Nepal', a wool-alpaca blend by Drops:- What I was too ashamed to tell you in my last post when I showed you this lovely new yarn I'd bought... ...was that in a moment of financial insanity, I actually bought three different bundles of yarn, to make three different cardigans. (I'm always cold. As is this house. The cardigans will at least get a great deal of wear.) The Drops Nepal is well on Continue Reading