FO Friday - A cardigan a long time coming

I first saw Ginny's cardigan a long time ago. I don't know how long but it was well before I had to state that trans women are women and f*ck you J.K. Rowling (maybe 2016?). Luckily it's in a book called Knitting Wizardry,which not only has nothing to do with J.K. Rowling, but skates right at the edges of copyright violation. I didn't knit it at the time. there were some odd comments about the neckline, and the bust shaping and I was too new to garment knitting to feel confident making the changes.

The other week I was l looking for something to do with this marvelous 8ply I bought last year. I knew I wanted a v-neck cardigan. I originally settled on the Glen Fiddich cardigan but a) I probably didn't have enough yarn and b) I bought the pattern and it is basically unreadable.

I converted Ginny's cardigan into a v-neck, by starting the neck when i joined the sleeves. i left off the pockets and the bust shaping. After I finished the body I decided to make a shawl collar. I actually thought it was going to be a huge, gigantic collar - it's came out quite restrained, but I like it.

I really like the finished cardigan, although it does have a bit of excess fabric around the ribcage - maybe the round yoke isn't the best shape.

I finished it last Friday and blocked it, figuring I would take photos on Saturday - except then I tested positive, and haven't left the house since. hence the balcony photos. I imagine wearing this to work, either with trousers or with any of the bright and colourful dresses I regularly wear. It feels like a really wearable, really comforting layering piece.

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Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory! For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them And that's my week in knitting and reading. To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as Sharondblk . I'm joining in with Kat ...

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy. And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...

Slowly slowly

I haven’t posted about my actual knitting for a while. This might be because not much has changed since the last time I talked about my knitting. This is the edging of my Village Sweater Wrap: The picture fails to capture how much further there is to go. I'm just past the first arm hole, so just over a third of the way through. It’s 47 stitches of relatively simple lace. I’ve been knitting it since Monday two weeks ago. It’s quite pleasant, and slowly growing but I can’t quite work out why it’s growing so slowly. One reason I know is that the first week I was knitting it during Good Beer Week, so I didn’t take it out and about with me. I knit other things, and when I’m knitting two things it makes everything feel like it takes forever. But the main reason, I think, is that this is just a slow knit for me. I love the needles I’m knitting on ( Karbonz of course) I love the yarn, I love the way the lace looks. So really, what’s the rush? I’m not going to be cold...

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