Cardigans

Well, I haven't been entirely idle, despite there having been a little while since my last post - that's mainly because I needed some buttons to sew on.  I've been learning to make cardigans - one was knitted from the top down and the other from the bottom upwards.  Both have delighted me in terms of learning how to shape with stitches, although there's quite a significant area for improvement.

The first was using yet more of the Women's Institute Soft and Silky Blue Mix - I realise now that I bought rather too much of this in my enthusiasm for a new baby arriving.  The second was using some old season colour and therefore cheap cotton/acrylic mix - Rowan all seasons cotton in Cardboard.  The first was a very old pattern from Patons and has come out beautifully.  The second was from the book "What to knit when you're expecting" which was given to me by thisispoki's pregnant daughter, marked with the patterns she wanted.  It was a less easy to follow pattern in terms of how it was written, so I had to go backwards and forwards a few times to work it out correctly and it has come up huge, certainly much bigger than I was expecting for a supposedly 3-6 month size.  It'll be fine, as baby can grow into it, but might not be an appropriate gift just yet.

Anywho, photos of completed...