My parents were recently visiting us in Oslo. I had it in my head to make my mum this cardigan for their trip! I finished it literally on the morning of their departure, so she didn’t get to wear it here after all! But I think it turned out quite well.
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Pattern: Chanel Blues by Hinterm Stein. This is a lovely, thoroughly written pattern. You have to be careful sometimes when knitting short rows that you don’t zoom past a stitch marker!
Yarn: Madelinetosh MCN worsted, bought on destash on Ravelry. Ravelry has been a bit of a danger to my bank balance recently!
No, it’s not inside out – it’s knit in reverse stocking stitch to give a tweedy effect. The pattern calls for two yarns held together to give a speckled effect, but my yarn was tonal enough to achieve that without messing about with two skeins.
The neck band is knit first as a long curved band, and then the body is picked up and worked downwards, using short rows to shape it. The buttonband is part of the main body of the jumper. Sleeves are picked up and knit in short rows to shape the sleeve cap and then knit in the round. No seaming at all!
The bottom band and cuffs are supposed to be knitted-on as a border to match the neckline. I did this, but the gauge was off and it looked wavy and flared. So I undid it and continued the body in ribbing, making sure the side panel flowed into the ribbing.
Mum seems to like it!
We just picked up the buttons on the morning they were leaving, and I sewed them on while my parents were packing their bags in their AirBnB. It’s still too warm in Canberra for mum to wear it, but I hope she can wear it this winter.
Christina Hopgood 