Kelly Complete
The Kelly cardigan is complete. In fact it was complete about 2 weeks ago making it a pretty quick knit. I am always surprised at just how quickly Kidsilk Haze seems to knit up. I made the small size although I am wondering if perhaps I should not have perhaps made the extra small? I am not petite but it would seem that often the patterns I choose are rather too generous around the chest and yet almost always too short in the body for my liking although I guess that is just a personal desire not to flash any midriff wobbles . I didn't add any length to this and I had my usual trouble setting the sleeves, does anyone else find sleeve setting a nightmare?
I really love wearing this, I wish I had gone for a different colour because this really only goes with a few things in my wardrobe, I may be forced to knit another. The yarn is used double and it is so light and warm, like being hugged and who doesn't want to wear a cardigan that hugs you?
The pattern does not have button holes but requires snap fasteners, if I had bothered to think about this before knitting I probably would have made provision for button holes because I think tiny pearl style buttons would be gorgeous. The only snap fasteners I could find locally were rather clumsy looking so I opted for my usual fall back of a brooch fastening and I am happy with that for the moment but should I knit this again I would certainly add button holes or maybe if I wake up one morning and feel like making tiny i-cord (this is unlikely but you never know) I could add button and loop closures.
The Kelly cardigan is complete. In fact it was complete about 2 weeks ago making it a pretty quick knit. I am always surprised at just how quickly Kidsilk Haze seems to knit up. I made the small size although I am wondering if perhaps I should not have perhaps made the extra small? I am not petite but it would seem that often the patterns I choose are rather too generous around the chest and yet almost always too short in the body for my liking although I guess that is just a personal desire not to flash any midriff wobbles . I didn't add any length to this and I had my usual trouble setting the sleeves, does anyone else find sleeve setting a nightmare?
I really love wearing this, I wish I had gone for a different colour because this really only goes with a few things in my wardrobe, I may be forced to knit another. The yarn is used double and it is so light and warm, like being hugged and who doesn't want to wear a cardigan that hugs you?
The pattern does not have button holes but requires snap fasteners, if I had bothered to think about this before knitting I probably would have made provision for button holes because I think tiny pearl style buttons would be gorgeous. The only snap fasteners I could find locally were rather clumsy looking so I opted for my usual fall back of a brooch fastening and I am happy with that for the moment but should I knit this again I would certainly add button holes or maybe if I wake up one morning and feel like making tiny i-cord (this is unlikely but you never know) I could add button and loop closures.
What to knit next? I have a baby tank top on the needles and a 4ply cotton sweater for Tilly, who would have though a garment to fit a 4 year old could require so many stitches? My gosh, it is a slow knit, does anyone else find 4ply cotton seems to take longer to knit than 4ply wool? Is this scientifically possible I wonder....? Anyway, I digress, I am wondering what to make for my next big project. I am really taken with some of the projects in the new Rowan Bamboo book but I haven't seen any real ones out there in blogland as yet. I am also keen on the little silk cardigan in the Erika Knight book. Decisions, decisions.....
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I always have a tough time deciding on what to knit next... the Erica Knight cardi is lovely, though! :0)
i love the brooch but the pearl button idea would also have been gorgous.
may I ask you how many balls of Kid silk haze you needed for the cardigan? I have just designed a wrap around cardi to be knitted in KSH double but have no idea about yarn consumption - if I know how much you used that at least gives me a guideline.
many thanks
Martina
(knitter, crafter etc from London - non blogger however)
As for the sleeves, I have found that Rowan patterns have especially difficult sleeves to set in... oftentimes not enough of a curvy, bell shape to make an easy set-in.
As for your next project, definitely the sweet short-sleeved silk number from Erika Knight's book--I'd love to see that one knit up.
And I know what you mean about setting the sleeves...
Setting in sleeves is the most horrifying thing for me, I always fear so much to definitely disturb all my knitting with ugly seams. May I aks you how you usally do it - at last with back stitch or at first with mattress stitch?
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I don't find setting in sleeves in knitting as difficult as in sewing. Maybe that's why I don't really sew clothes anymore
The sweater looks so soft! Very nice.
It's stunning. A truly beautiful piece.
Did you use a pattern? I googled on "Rowan Kelly Kidsilk," and found a very different cardigan in Rowan 31 (made from All Seasons Cotton, with a wide button band).