Sometimes you see a pattern, and even though the picture is way wrong for you, there's something there. So it was with this pattern, the Colonial Cardi from Sublime's "luxuriously exotic soya cotton handknit book". Now I knew that I would never be caught dead in a get-up like the one above. I wasn't crazy about the baby blue color shown, or the kind-of-puerile-in-my-opinion flowers stitched onto the sweater, but still...there was something I liked.
So I bought some of the Sublime soya cotton, in a shade I could relate to. About a year and a half ago, meaning to get around to it sometime soon. The sweater challenge has presented the perfect opportunity. This is a very easy knit, such that even after the inevitable re-knits, it took maybe two weeks start to finish. And the yarn itself it also very nice, soft and really pleasant to wear.
Here's my finished product. A little soft of focus, but there's only so much I can ask of Operations Man, my archivist. He doesn't like these little two finished objects in two weeks things. Obviously, famous fashion photographer was never his fantasy life (actually, I think he might have preferred to be Amelia Earhart, even with the unpleasant ending).
And here is what I liked about this sweater. A very fresh looking neck-line, made more attractive by the omission of those flowers.
So, number six is complete. I've been working on the NaKniSweMoDo sweaters in sequence thus far, but for the next two, I'm mixing it up. I'll be re-attempting the ill-fated Pin-tuck tee with the ill-fated Louet Euroflax (probably a mistake), and I've got a secret project as well, one that isn't even on Rav......yet. Stay tuned, but it will be a while until there's a sweater on these pages. Fortunately, after spending the last two weekends throwing manure around my yard, I may have some really great vegetable shots soon. Yawn.
