Well, it's finished. But did I make it on time to enter it into this year's Outfit Along? Believe it or not I did, In fact I finished a full 2 days before the deadline, phew! The weather cooled down just enough for me to crack on which was nice and then Felicity projectile vomited all over the living room (stay with me here) which was not good, but meant that I had to take Friday off work because my mum refused to look after her. That resulted in a whole day's extra knitting/sewing up time, some of which was taken up with me scrubbing the carpet and the sofa and the rug, oh and Felicity too!
So, was it worth rushing to finish? That will be a resounding yes! I love this cardigan. It is so cute, is really comfortable and goes really nicely with my Belladone dress. After last year when my chosen dress and cardigan for the OAL looked horrible together this was a huge relief. I'm a massive fan of the yarn too, I used DROPS Loves You 7, which is 100% cotton and feels really nice to knit with. Also it's 80p a ball and I used 3 and a bit making this cardigan cost somewhere in the region of £3.
Not only that, but it looks really nice with my Hazel dress too.
As always with DROPS patterns I started by rewriting out the directions so that they didn't make my brain hurt. I think they took up 5 sides of A4 by the time I had finished but it was totally worth it. I still managed to make a little mistake by reading my rewritten instructions wrong but the mistake isn't obvious so I'm not pointing it out. I did end up changing the sleeves by leaving off the lace pattern and just leaving them plain. I did this for a couple of reasons, firstly I decided it would be quicker and easier than trying to keep track of a lace pattern whilst simultaneously casting off 2 stitches every row and secondly the cardigan already has lots going on with the cabled rib and lace on the body so I figured it wouldn't be missed. If I do make this again I'll probably used 2x2 ribbing with no pesky cables and then keep the lacy sleeves.
I would be tempted to make this again because this one is already proving to be a very useful garment but I think I'll have to leave it a while until I forget about needed to sew in the sleeves. In reality it wasn't too onerous a task, but I'm lazy and I hate hand sewing and avoid it as much as possible. For the moment I'm going to go back and finish my Salted sweater which I put aside for the duration of the OAL and enjoy not having a deadline....at least until I sign up for another challenge!
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