Every year I start a post-Christmas "I Am So Tired Of Knitting For Other People" project for myself. Sometimes, if I have been very efficient with the Christmas Knitting, it even begins on Christmas Eve. This year I discovered that Peacefleece Lovers on Ravelry is doing a KAL (Knit Along) on the Sweetheart Cardigan. So around the third week in December I sent off an order to Peacefleece where I got the two colors above (Porterfield Plum and Rabbit Grey) for my post Christmas project. The cardigan is now finished and is evidently a smashing success. How can I tell? Because since the day I finished it (January 9) I have worn it every single day; over a wool dress during the day and over the L.L. Bean Flannel nightgown which is my annual romantic Christmas present from my husband in the evening. It is cozy and warm which has been a great help during one of the coldest Maine winters on record, and the new blend of Peacefleece (10% rather than the traditional 30% mohair) makes the back of the neck completely scratchy free for me.
Anyone who knows me knows that I will have opinions on how to proceed and will have made changes. I am actually quite incapable of following a pattern or a recipe or pretty much directions of any kind exactly as they are written and so....a list of my mods on the Sweetheart Cardigan.
I always make the sleeves first on any sweater I am making no matter what the pattern says. This is because I like the reassurance of having a larger "swatch" then the little stitch gauge square that I always knit up and a sleeve makes an excellent large swatch to check for how the yarn works up, do you really like the color, how does it drape, etc.
I used the turned edge in the photo below rather than the ribbing.
I added some back waist shaping because that suits my particular body. I knit the two fronts and the back simultaneously so I wouldn't have side seams. And I added pockets because I really, really need pockets.
It was a fast, soothing and pleasant knit. Love the yarn, love the pattern, love the Peacefleece company.
Anyone who knows me knows that I will have opinions on how to proceed and will have made changes. I am actually quite incapable of following a pattern or a recipe or pretty much directions of any kind exactly as they are written and so....a list of my mods on the Sweetheart Cardigan.
I always make the sleeves first on any sweater I am making no matter what the pattern says. This is because I like the reassurance of having a larger "swatch" then the little stitch gauge square that I always knit up and a sleeve makes an excellent large swatch to check for how the yarn works up, do you really like the color, how does it drape, etc.
I used the turned edge in the photo below rather than the ribbing.
I added some back waist shaping because that suits my particular body. I knit the two fronts and the back simultaneously so I wouldn't have side seams. And I added pockets because I really, really need pockets.
It was a fast, soothing and pleasant knit. Love the yarn, love the pattern, love the Peacefleece company.
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