Sunday, 11 October 2015

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About a year and a half ago, my sister asked me to finish knitting her cardigan for her. She is more into cross-stitch and crocheting and was actually having problems with her hand/arm while knitting. So, I had a look at it. 

The thing I usually knit are socks or dolls and animals, so a cardigan was a bit different to me. Besides that, it is a lot bigger than what I usually do, it only has one (!) colour and my sister had already knitted part of it. Which meant I would either have to adapt my knitting to hers, or I would have to unravel the whole thing!

In the end, I only unraveled part of it and got going. It looks okay now. I will show again when finished. I just have to figure out about the pocket she wants and about the buttons. Any ideas? Oh, and the blue/white knitted thing in the bottom photo is a trial for another project I hope to do once the cardigan is finished. Although the trial will probably be turned into a cushion or something!!

7 comments:

  1. Hari OM
    OOh that other one looks like a traditional Nordic design... cannot really comment on Sissy's one as it's folded in a box. But there looks to be a lot of it, which means the work is surely getting done! ... my mother was a great one for recycling buttons. .. and I seem to recall that pockets were made by leaving an un-knitted (cast off) hole at the relevant spot and then picked up and knitted in from the 'wrong' side...

    that's all the nuisance I can be for you today! YAM xx

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    1. I have a book with a lot of different designs, from snow flakes to animals and people. Plus a lot besides! I just tried out a few to see how it worked and because I want to knit something with a big design in it (I am already dreading it), I just got going.

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  2. You are obviously a good knitter looking at that pattern you have done. I would just get the cardigan finished pocket or no pocket. Match the buttons to the colour of the wool unless your sister wants a contrast I would make it as easy as possible for myself.

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  3. The sweater looks wonderful and I love the color. That next project seems like quite a challenge if you ask me!!!

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  4. It looks very nice ! I am not even good to knit a potholder ! I wouldn't put any pockets.

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  5. I do not know squat about knitting. I did google for sweater pockets and here is the address showing several options.
    http://www.studioknits.com/bookpage44.htm

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    1. Thank you! I have knitted one now and hope it will be good enough! If not: too bad!!!

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