what time is it, etc.

After a month of going back and forth between my city and the place I was doing my internship-ish work, and a lot of weeks being very highly scheduled, I’m finally done. And settled in my apartment. With my cat, who really enjoyed herself at F’s but is absolutely beside herself with excitement at being back in the apartment with the nice big windowsills.

I had delicious, awesome bread for breakfast, made by a friend of mine.

And I’ve got new knitting on the needles, the beginnings of a Bellevue cardigan.

In other words, I’m really, really excited that I finally get to treat summer like summer, and spend a solid few weeks relaxing.

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)