I've succumbed

I'm not on a yarn diet; I'm not on a yarn diet; I'm not on a yarn diet. So I can't have broken my promise, can I.?

It's not even my fault. It's all to do with 'im indoors. He wants a jumper (or possibly a cardie). Impossible to get him to tell me quite what he wants. He knows what he doesn't want, which is a start, I suppose. I know what I want too. It's got to be interesting; it's got to be knitted in the round (because, as you all know, I don't do sewing); it's not going to have cables and it's not going to be white (or black); it's not going to be fuzzy (technical term); it's going to be some sort of natural fibre (though not necessarily wool). Hmm, looks like I know what I don't want, too.

I started looking for patterns. Yes, I know, I could just take out The Sweater Workshop and design one myself but I needed to have a picture of the finished thing so 'im indoors could take a gander.

I found the Mosaic Triangles at Magknits. He seemed to quite like this one. Debbie Bliss Cathay, perhaps? Twenty two balls at £3.25 the ball? £71.50/$146. I don't think so, somehow. I showed the Annie Modesitt Corset I knitted in this same yarn and he didn't like the drape of it. He thought it might "stretch down to my knees". Well, we wouldn't want that, would we?

Then I came across the Kauni Cardigan on Stephanie's blog (and just about everywhere else I turned in cyberspace - there's a KAL (now closed to new members); there are pictures here and many other places too.)

It's a lovely thing. It ticked all the boxes. All I needed to do was get the yarn.

I ordered it from here. Meanwhile, there is another pattern here. This, I think, is the one I'm going to go for.

Sorry about the lack of pictures in all that. I haven't got the yarn yet. (I don't even know if Astrid has the yarn yet.) Rest assured there will be pictures as soon as I get my mitts on it.

The Anne Cardigan? Don't get me started. The "pattern" (such as it is) is just horrible. Down the sleeve I go. Change to smaller needles. Work one inch in moss stitch. Fairly straightforward? I just did what the pattern said. I didn't decrease any stitches before the cuff. Even though I know this is the usual thing. What was I thinking?

This is the dire result:



See how it's all splayed out and floppy (technical term)?

I've ripped it out. I've decreased an inch worth of stitches. I've re-knitted it. There is no picture of the new, improved cuff because I have hidden the thing under a cushion so it doesn't get in my eye line.

Back Field Picture - posted on the right day for once: