Only one more color to go! I am so excited about being so close to finishing this beautiful design. I have already caked up my last skein. It shouldn’t take me long to finish the collar and then block it and attach it. I am already thinking about what I should wear with it to model it. For now the body of the cardigan is hanging out on my dress maker dummy upstairs. So far I have knit 11 repeats of the lace pattern. The pattern calls for 14 repeats, so I could conceivably end it there, but that would leave a fair bit of this last skein leftover, so I will have to think about that. I can probably get 17 or 18 repeats total if I use up this last skein, which would make the collar a little bit longer. We shall see.
As these get longer I did consider putting them on a single straight needle just to make them a bit easier to wrangle. I did manage to find a set of straight needles in the right size in my needle collection and even knitted them on to one. I think it would definitely make things a little easier to wrangle, but I found them awkward and even uncomfortable to work on and did not want to risk a strain or injury so I knit back on to my circular and continued as I had been. It isn’t that hard to keep things straight.
Pattern: Elora by Linda Marveng
Yarn: The Unique Sheep Kiri in Brick & Clay Ombré
Needle: US 2.5 (3.0 mm).
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