Truthfully, I cast this on back on January 13, but I put it away in a plastic box while I finished up the Seascair Blanket and Pillows, and the Hedgerow Shawl, and started working on the Bunny Wishes Sweater. This project came about because Ewe Ewe Yarns was having a knit along. The pattern was the Love Note pullover by Tin Can Knits, and the yarn was Ewe Ewe Yarns Fluffy Fingering and Magicland Yarns Marvelous Mohair, held together, and the colors…well, they were my favorite colors. So I leaped without looking too closely, only to realize once I started really looking at the pattern that it was one of those where you knit at a loose gauge, and I am not a fan. But I loved the yarn, so I went looking for a pattern that would match my gauge, and found the Copenhagen Cardigan by PetiteKnit. It is a basic cardigan, knit top down, and I thought it would be really nice as a fuzzy purple/pink confection. I quickly knit the collar, and then set it aside when I got to the short row shaping for the neck. I did set the pattern up in my knitCompanion, so I was all ready to pick it back up again when the opportunity arose, and the opportunity arose when I got to the patterned hem on the Bunny Wishes Sweater. I wanted something that would not require quite as much attention - more TV watching knitting, as opposed to TV listening knitting. Yesterday morning I pulled it back out and made it through the short row shaping for the neck.
I’m still in love with the colors and the yarn. I was never a fan of mohair before, but I like holding it with another non-fuzzy yarn. I even learned how to set up linked counters in knitCompanion (not hard, just never had done it before) to remind me when to work the button holes.
Pattern: Copenhagen Cardigan by PetiteKnits
Yarn: Ewe Ewe Yarns Fluffy Fingering and Magicland Yarns Marvelous Mohair
Needles: US 4 (3.5 mm) and US 6 (4.0 mm)
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