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Carolyn

Tuesday, 17 July, 2007

So Jess at work, noticing how I would knit my way through editing jobs and various meetings, said to me, “I want you to knit me something.” “Sure,” I said. “Choose me a pattern and buy me the yarn and I'll do it.” And then I put her onto Knitty.

She chose Carolyn, a striped cardigan with big wooden buttons, and picked her colours from the Bendigo Woollen Mills shade card. I was in the middle of making lots of Odessa hats but when they were done, I got right onto it. It took roughly about a month but here it is:

I learnt the correct way to weave in ends and the correct way to sew on buttons (Jess also supplied the buttons. How cool are they!) I like how the collar is done: you pick up stitches all along the edge and then do the same pattern that you do for the bottom edge of the cardigan, increasing at the corners.

Because there was plenty of yarn left over, I asked Jess what else she wanted me to do with it. “Gloves,” she said, and picked Tua Cha (I'm modelling them because I won't see Jess for another week or so):

But there is still leftover yarn so I think I might go back to this oldie but a goodie—ABC: Alison's Beginner's Cap—and make that for her as well.

The knitting never stops. Well, almost.

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