Finished Lara Cardigan!
December 13th, 2004
| Categories: Knit & Crochet
First post on the new blog software. Hopefully, I’ve got it all working correctly.
Actually, I finished Lara quite a few days ago, but I finally got photos. This was a really fun project and seemed to go quickly. I needed just a tiny bit of a shoulder pad, so I loosely crocheted 2 large circles and then felted them down to size. Worked great! I will probably make this sweater again, with a different stitch pattern to make it look a bit different, because it fits really well and was so easy to make.
I really like your sweater. I love that chocolate brown…is it the Debbie Bliss? My Lara is currently still on hold, with Holiday present knitting taking priority. Hope to finish it after the holiday. I only have about 15 rows left, and then the sew up! Cheers.
Kari – No, I used Knit in Peruvian Collection Highland Wool
color 294, a chocolate brown. Thanks for commenting!
looks awesome! I’m not normally a brown fan but this cardigan makes even me like colour!!
Spectacular sweater – looks so comfortable, fits to a “t”.
Hope it’s not too “itchy.”
I’ve seen this pattern but thought it wouldn’t look good on me. But seeing yours, maybe, just maybe, I could wear it too! Great job!
Your Lara looks great! Inspires me to get mine going. I like brown too – so rich.
Kari, I visited the link to your slipper knit-along. I LOVE those crocheted Turkish slippers! I’m a socknitter which is where I discovered you and your loving knittine objects. Where might I find the pattern for those slippers, please? It looks from one of the pictures on the knitalong site like it’s in a magazine somewhere. I’d need a pattern to get started I’m sure–or maybe I could just wing it like you did with an outline of the bottom of my foot. I’m getting so adventurous these days. Thanks for the inspiration–and if you happen to know where the pattern came from, please let me know. Grace
oh, that looks great! i was swatching my yarn last night, though i have not measured it. i’m also using a substitute yarn.
i do have some technical questions though. i started to draw my own schematic based on the gauge for the sweater, and the number of rows or inches it says to work. because this sweater is knit side to side, the row gauge can be important for the body (since the sleeves are only knit for length). how accurate were you with your gauge swatch? did you knit the pattern as written, or did you make some adjustments? i also thought to go ahead and cast on for the body sections in one fell swoop, vs. increases in cast on sections. then, i would work short rows for doing the increases in the body shaping — i thought that might make it smoother for seaming those edges together later.
i love that chocolate brown too — mine’s going to be goblin green, with a high angora content!
LOVE that sweater. Where can I get the pattern? I NEED to make one of these!!! Thanks. Nancy