I finished the pink top-down cardigan on the weekend and blocked it, and it was just waiting for some buttons to be completely done. I wore it today because the weather was right.
Pattern: Lion Brand Top-down Raglan Cardigan (free pattern from their website)
Yarn: Gedifra Tiago, just over 7 balls
Needles: 5mm and 4.5mm circulars
I’m still not sure. It’s droopy around the shoulders. The ribbing on the button band sagged out all to heck in blocking. The shell buttons are muy pretty… but somehow, it does not all seem right. The yarn’s heavy. If it’s not buttoned, the collar flaps open. I keep tugging the neck to get it to sit properly. One thing it is, is very pink. Two people complimented me on the colour today. With this project I mostly wanted the yarn off my conscience, but now I have knitter’s remorse. What square-peg pattern does this round-hole yarn need to be knit into? I feel like the yarn actually just wants to be a plain old V-neck pullover or something. I don’t know.
This week I did also finish a simple scarf from One Skein Wonders with a lone ball of one colour of SRK Ovation I had since the holidays, and this little purse with leftover Raj Silk, for a birthday gift. Plain stockinette in the round, lined it with some hot-pink fabric bequeathed from (blog-free) Kim, and it turned out fine. I’d like to make a few more of these little bags. I love the ones I have for stashing travel things, they use up those single or half-skeins from the stash, and make nice gifts.
With those done I’m down to Icarus and the current lacey socks, but after an day of uncomfortable teaching evaluations to give, grading left undone, and job-hunt anxieties I don’t know if I’d do either of them justice tonight. (Although Icarus might feel validation to experience someone else’s insecurities.) It’s much better to close with something happy, like food:
Chocolate bread pudding with a side of strawberries. (Take a basic bread pudding recipe and add a dose of chocolate melted with butter to the milk/eggs/sugar mixture. You’re welcome) It’s so good I’m going to polish off the rest for breakfast tomorrow.
It is a very pretty colour for you! I can’t speak to the sweater… it sounds like you’ve already made up your mind about it though
Yes, it IS a lovely pink, a pink I’d even wear and the colour really does look Good on you… but I hear you about not being completely happy with something…I guess that’s just part of the beauty of knitting, if you don’t like it, rip it and do something else.
That little bag is sweeet.
Mmmm, bread pudding… oh yum… my mother made some last week, sent a piece home with me on Sunday, I had a bit after dinner and did indeed eat the rest for breakfast the next morning!
Maybe you and the sweater will come to an understanding – if not I hope it finds its destiny soon as it is a lovely colour.
It’s a lovely sweater. That shade of pink is good on you (I think – hard to tell without all of your head in the photo!)
Oh marth, you look loverly in that cardi… and maybe its a casual cardi instead of a piece of grown-up clothing. Its fun. its pink.
And I’m jealous of the bread pudding. I shouldn’t have let you take home the stuff you brought over here.
I think the pink sweater is adorable.
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