fo: featherweight cardigan

It’s done! My sweater! It’s so done.

Pattern: Featherweight Cardigan! I knit the size small, but it’s possible I could have sized it down a little – the finished product is a little wide for me in the shoulders, and has a tendency to slouch off and look a little baggier than I’d like.
Yarn: Malabrigo Lace, in Azul Bolita – close to 2 skeins. (I bought three, and worked from two simultaneously from the sleeves, but I think my leftovers add up to a full skein.)
Needles: 4mm Addi Lace circular

I did a little bit of modifying to this pattern, but really not a lot. I had big plans, when I started, to knit this up from the collar with a hood, but by the time I got there I was just so sick of knitting laceweight yarn, I couldn’t bring myself to make it an even bigger project.

As a lot of people on Ravelry have mentioned – and as should be pretty obvious from the design of the pattern – the collar will curl, since it’s unbordered stockinette. I tried to fix this, a little bit, by adding in a half-inch of Feather and Fan lace to the edge of the collar. I saw a lot of sweaters where people went all-out with this, bordering the cuffs and the hem the same way, but I wasn’t together enough to think of it until the cuffs and hem were already knit, so – my sweater isn’t quite that pretty. Such is life.

I am, however, a little in love with it all the same. It’s so soft, shockingly warm, and so light it feels like I’m not wearing anything at all. (Possibly because, as you can see, it barely touches me anywhere. So floaty!) I definitely forsee myself getting a whole lot of use out of this.

once upon a time (i believe it was a tuesday)

I don’t know if “suck it” is really an appropriate knitting term, but that’s sort of what I want to shout right now. In all caps. At, uh, this.

It’s made of two skeins of Malabrigo Lace, and it’s so, so soft, and if you flatten it out it turns into this.

Which happens to be what a Featherweight cardigan looks like, when it’s off the needles and finished and ready to be blocked. Seriously, this is so exciting. I feel like I’ve won something, it’s such a relief to have this finished (just in time for the right weather to wear it!) and off the needles and done (ish).

Song of the Entry: Taylor Swift – Forever & Always (Listen)

“a new max wicked food product that lives where xtreme meets blue”

Just in case you all thought I’d forgotten about this (“this” being, of course, my Featherweight Cardigan), I have not. It’s been with me to three different provinces and countless knit nights, and I doubt it’s any exaggeration to say that it’s the bane of my knitting existence right now. If it wasn’t for the fact that I really, really, really wanted the sweater this is going to be, I’d probably have quit weeks ago.

Mostly, the issue I’m having is that laceweight is – I don’t know if you guys know this – really little yarn. The 4mm needles mean I’m progressing, and I’m actually pretty close to most of the way done, which is exciting. (I have to finish that second sleeve, and then pick up and knit the collar.) But it still feels like this sweater is taking me years.

The next project I start is going to be made from bulky weight yarn with massive needles. Whatever.

Song of the Entry: Great Big Sea – Trois Navires de Ble (Listen)