Wool on Sundays – 79 (Another Textured Yoke Cardigan)

23Aug
by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Welcome to Wool on Sundays 79! 

After the screen issues, my computer is back. I’ve been telling everyone it is fixed as it now has a new screen but this morning this happened again….

If anyone has any suggestions of what is causing this, please let me know. I’m, today, wondering if I’ve just paid for a new screen for nothing :-(

Technical matters aside, we’ve had some recent knitting weather…

…and, this week, I have completed a project, which has been in progress for a while – a cardigan for my eldest daughter. She is not home to model it this morning so I will update this post when I have a picture of it being worn but you can get an idea of how it’s turned out.

I use the same Garn Studio Pattern as for the yellow cardigan I made in the Spring but this time I happened to print the pattern in landscape, which made the chart bigger, and I realised there were, after all, increases which I hadn’t seen at all last time round… :(

 

Here are the details of the yarn I used:

 

Image and yarn used from Wool Warehouse

My daughter is not keen on some wools and I am not keen on acrylic so this reasonably priced, 100% recycled cotton seemed like a good solution. I did have doubts about it whilst I was knitting as it felt harder than I’d hoped and seemed a bit stringy with a tendency to split (which I mostly overcame by using needles with fairly blunt points). Once it was knitted up, however, it felt a bit softer and the cardigan is thick and heavy so it will be warm in the Winter.

I was also very pleased with the texture. It shows up better in real life and the colour is darker than these (inside) photos suggest.

I just made a few minor adjustments with the edgings but otherwise stuck to the pattern.

I usually get bored with making the same thing twice but, for some reason, I love this pattern and I’m tempted to make another one…But outside there is SO much needing to be done that a new knitting project will have to wait a while.

 The world is full of beans…
…and roses…

 

…and, this morning the first sunflower decided to come out!

…and we have three new chickens but they are still a bit shy :)

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Janine @ Rainbow Hare

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7 thoughts on “Wool on Sundays – 79 (Another Textured Yoke Cardigan)”

  3. Summer

    lovely knitting and flowers, love sunflowers. cant say I've seen anything like your screen problem before so cant help you there, only suggestion is a virus of some sort? I sure hope not. can you show it to a comp expert in the shop.

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  6. Soma @ whimsandfancies.com

    Two ideas about your screen – a bad connecting cable or a bad video card.

    The garden looks beautiful and a very warm welcome to the new feathery members. My husband and I are very sensitive to wool. Therefore sometimes I have to fall back on acrylic yarn because wool would be too expensive. Looks like the two of you reached a good compromise. The cardigan looks lovely, I also love the texture in that pattern very much.

    -Soma

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