WORLD TRAVELED CARDIGAN

A beautiful finish on this cardigan!  I began it in February after a mountain of yarn was gifted to me by ChrisKnits (who lives in Indiana) at a quick meeting in Daytona Beach for the AQS quilt show.  I began the cardigan on the Caribbean Cruise with my daughter, took it with me to NY to continue knitting on it, and now it is done and it fits perfectly!  I am thrilled!  

The pattern is Flower Child by Wool & Pine ; the yarn is Filatura Crosa 501, a superwash wool.  I used size 7 needles .  The textured yoke was very fun to work but it was challenging, too.

Even the back is so pretty!  I will probably wear it first when we take a trip to Georgia because it won't cool off enough to wear it here until Dec/Jan!  

Thanks for the yarn, Chris-it was a dream to work with this yarn AND I have enough yarn left to make a t-shirt sweater which I have already begun!

 

LOTS OF FUN

I started a new sweater, a cardigan, called Elmgrove, by Berroco.  Lena was doing an inspection of my stitch count!  I thoroughly enjoyed doing the lace knitting which is how the increases are made on the yoke.

It is a round yoked top-down cardigan. 

 I am using the yarn I brought home from my Mom in August.  

It is more coral than the orange it appears here.

Earlier in the day, I worked on the new red blocks. 

 I will finish the rest of them, 9 more, today.

Bill was at work on the roof trying to repair a leak

 on the solar panels that heat the water for the pool.

  Unfortunately, he had to declare fatalities to 3 of the 7. 

 It's been a hard few days to be on the roof

 because of the aching back, knees, ankles that result!