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Way back at the beginning of the year, I had the great idea to replace all of my store bought cardigans with hand knit ones. The first one I tackled to replace was a sage green cocoon that I wear a lot. I found some acceptable yarn (one of my requirements for this one was washability) and cast on. I finished the sleeves and started the back, and then there was a pandemic and I briefly abandoned it.

Now that it's cool enough to wear large squishy cardigans, though, I went ahead and finished it this month. The pattern is a Hannah Fettig one from an old issue of KnitScene, and I used Ewe So Sporty yarn from Yarn Kandy. Someone on Ravelry did a lovely two tone version (I believe they did a burnt orange and a dark red), and although my yardage calculations were a bit off (I ran out of the sage green a row and a half out and had to switch to pistachio, of which I ended up having an entire extra ball) but overall I'm quite pleased with the finished piece. Next I'd like to replace a slinky teal cardigan I have...


After finishing the cardigan, I dug out my current "record" blanket. Over ten years ago I started a (this link goes to Ravelry, fyi) Pi Shawl from Elizabeth Zimmermann's book The Knitter's Almanac because all I had available to me at the time was that book, some leftover sock yarn, and a pair of size 6/4mm circular needles. I put all my leftover sock yarn into it for six years, which produced a nice napping blanket... which I then gave away (to a worthy recipient). And then I started this one. I only had about six inches to go on it, but by the end the rows are long (since it's a circle worked form the center outward) so it still took a bit of doing. I'm very pleased with it, and glad it was as close to being finished as it was.


And then I promptly cast on another one! I've got a bit more of a plan with this one (in terms of color placement), but no set timeline (I'm not sure if I have enough leftover sock yarn to do the whole thing), but that's the best way to do it.


Another stringy project this month was putting up a clothes line - but that's a story for the next post.
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