My blog post for Minerva Crafts this month is this adorable little girl’s cardigan/bolero, which is now available for grown ups, too!
This one is for a Christmas present but, as it was whipped up in just a few hours, I couldn’t resist casting on another as a birthday present immediately after the first one was off the needles.
Follow this link for the pattern and to see how sweet it looks on our baby granddaughter.
Just after Christmas, after months of making things for other people, I had the urge to knit something for myself.
I love Artesano (and was gutted to find out recently that they have gone into receivership – another independant yarn shop gone) and I found this lace cardigan pattern on their website, for free, no less. Here’s the link – download it while you can as I assume the website will be offline soon: – free lace cardigan pattern
The suggested yarn was their Alpaca Silk Lace, so I went ahead and treated myself to four skeins of ‘French Rose’.
The lace pattern is a simple repeating pattern and, although I lost concentration and made a few mistakes, the pattern is quite loose so they don’t show at all.
Fast forward to May and the goal was to take it to Spain as a light cover up in the evenings. Well, the knitting was finished in time….but not stitched together, so I took all four panels with me with the intention of finishing it on the first day or two of our holiday.
I blocked it.
I even sewed it together.
Then it came back to England with me and I forgot all about it until the other day.
Re-discovered underneath several WIPs in my lovely sewing cabinet, I dragged it out and sat down, determined to make the flowers there and then.
Look, matching nails and dress, too:)
Half an hour later, the flowers were completed and all that was left to do was the chain cord that would act as a buttonhole, joining the two flowers.
Finally…….Tadah!
It’s quite special as cardigans go, so I thought I’d glam it up with a pair of designer mules for the photos.
I love the scalloped edge at the bottom.
It’s so easy to wear and not at all restrictive.
The pattern calls for twelve knitted roses dotted about on various seams, but I left it at two, on the front opening edge.
I slapped on a matching lippy and met hubby for a drink at lunchtime and he loved it. Or was it the heels…….?
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