guessing on the usage of dogwood and magenta simply cotton, didn’t take weights of what was there to start.
| Began | March 18, 2015 |
| Finished | April 3, 2015 |
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| Edited | April 6, 2015 |
| Pattern URL | Playful Stripes Cardigan by 106427 |
| Made for | chloe |
| Size made | 3 years |
Started out doing bottom up with plans to kitchener, but then my cast on wasn’t as pretty as I liked, so I flipped it on end and seamed up the cast on edge for the top. did several tack stitches to define the ears. It’s a little loose after wearing all day, but not bad….
mods – increased the number of pattern rows to optimize usage of the skeins on hand of my handspun. 1 skein orange+orange, 2 skein orange+pink, 1 skein pink+pink increased the number of repeats in orange+pink to use more. needs blocking.
2 at a time on 2 circs, made 4 purses all together. Finished 10/16, need braided ties.
held yarn doubled. made up cables and little eyelets on the front, and a little different motif on the back. the top front has an overlapping “envelope” section, and an icord tie. meant to line but haven’t figured out how to best do that when the case shrinks/expands depending on whether the iPad is in…
Making another as one final check of the numbers in the pattern before releasing it! The colors changes were really nice and subtle and I took pics with my wedding dress to show off how nice it looks against the silky satiny white.
I love this pattern and purchased tan, green, and plum colored yarn for it. Started mid-September. Update: Finished sock one on October 16th. Updated 2/08: I’m about 1/2 done with the second sock. HIBERNATING. I’m tired of these! My guage is looser than I’d like, the weaving of the yarn for the stripes takes more…
