Here I am in disguise as a grown-up!
This is so fresh off the needles that it still doesn't have any buttons (it might get some wooden toggles, given that the buttonholes I made might turn out not to be very big- but suggestions are very welcome!)
It's a basic top down raglan, made using the trusty calculator. I knit it out of Blue Sky Alpacas
delicious organic cotton, in bone and nut. The colours aren't dyed at all, the cotton just grows that way! Very pleasing (and very, very soft)
I shaped the waist a little bit (as you can see in the above picture), and I worked turned hems on the sleeves and the bottom instead of ribbing (as you can see in the below- slightly blurry- picture)
I'm very pleased with it, the perfect goes-with-most-things stripy cotton cardie, which will solve all my summer evening cover-up dilemmas, and my in-between season quandaries. Hurrah!
I am very pleased, not least because I tried to make it last summer, but made the tactical error of going yarn shopping with my Mum. It turns out that if you buy yarn with your Mum, you end up with colours best suited to a small child (but chances are she'll pay, so it has its good side...). Anyway, the upshot was that last summer I made the perfect kindergarten stripy cotton cardie, which accounts for the grown-up-ness of this one.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Sensible stripes cardigan
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9 comments:
That's lovely! It is exactly the kind of thing I would wear.
oooh - looks very soft and good nutty colours for autumn. (I have conkers and nuts on my brain at the moment!) Love the shaping and I think toggles would look lovely on it. I'm a bit toggle fan myself!
I still say it's only *relatively* grown up (because stripes are always kiddies)
:p
toggles, you can always close up the button holes
Lovely cardigan!
Thank you!
Toggles it shall be, I think!
Found you through Crafster, hello.
Really lovely cardigan. If you make a shank between a small button and a larger one you can use the small end to actually go through the fabric, leaving the larger button on the outside. That way you can switch 'em out according to mood: birds, cake slices, whatever.
Toggles would be cute too though.
Great sweater! Love that the cotton is naturally those colours!
I think you should also blog your clown coloured cardigan as well so people can compare the stripes! I especially like the fact this wool is naturally that lovely colour. Also just to let you know I've posted about our sheep day and all the photos of the day are on my flickr site. Feel free to use them as well if you wish!
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