Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

It was a busy weekend for me - orders, databaseing, printing, binding - and I'm finally caught up! Also got the 2nd sleeve finished on that Peace Fleece cardigan and worked on the Gazette.

I started to write up this cardigan pattern in 3 sizes. I've also begun the crochet front bands.

When Joan Shrouder and Jaya were visiting, they both admired a cardigan I designed and knit several years ago. I never published the pattern as the rep for the main motif is rather large and I wasn't sure how I wanted to deal with that and get logical sizes. It's a ljus-patterned, Norwegian-style, drop shoulder, steeked (yes, I can hear the gasps of fright as I write that word!) cardigan with pewter clasps. The main motif was adapted from a circa 1700's weaving draft (or draught, as it was called then). I knit it in Lamb's Pride Worsted at about 5 sts/1", so it's a good weight - not too thick nor thin.

A year back or so, I thought I'd redo it in another yarn and bought a bunch of Halcyon's Botanica for it. I actually began the corrugated ribbing and ljus pattern, then it stalled, as projects do, when something more urgent crops up, like a Gazette issue. But, I never got back to it. I wasn't sure I wanted it in that yarn. I like the Lamb's Pride - it makes a soft and cozy sweater, even though it foes fuzz a bit and pill a little.

I think I'll leave it as is and work the pattern up. I made the 46" size sample, which works well as a jacket for my 36" bust. Though, as I think about it, the 39" size would make a closer-fitting cardigan, not jacket. So, I may do another sample, anyway. I'll mull it over, as I finish up some other projects that have been sitting here since doomsday (pre-retina surgeries)!

One last package to get ready to send tomorrow, then a respite to read the latest "W" magazine that's come in today....