I finish the cardigan on Thursday. Surprisingly, it does fit pretty perfect. The arms are slighly too long, but not so much that I want to go back and change anything. The pattern asked for roughly 1120m of yarn - I ended up using closer to 1400m (I saw at several places that the yardage was off by quite a bit) It was 13 balls of Shetland De Luxe by Cedifra (50% New wool, 25% Baby Alpaka and 25% Mohair) in the color 9202. I might have been able to finish it with just 12 balls, but I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't have to join any yarn while knitting the collar, so I used an extra ball for this.
It wears nicely, but is nothing for a windy day.
There are many, many holes ....Some details on the buttons:
I did make some progress on the Castle Sampler, but was too lazy to take a picture today.
Instead, some flowers:
On Friday, I visited the botanical garden in Frankfurt, and as there was little to take pictures of on the outside (still too early in the year) I went to the orchids. Lovely flowers.
1 comment:
It looks wonderful, congratulations on such a lovely finish. The flowers were gorgeous too.
Sue
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