I’m still knitting away on the Wollmeise Lace-Garn Cardigan. The body is completed and I have started on the sleeves.
I ended up frogging back the body 3 times I think. Mainly because of small mistakes that I just didn’t find on time, and then couldn’t be fixed nicely. And I *hate* mistakes in my knitting, so once I’ve found them I just have to fix them. Oh well, it’s all good now.
This cardigan will be waist-length, with full length sleeves, and I’m sure that I will still have a fair amount of yarn left over. One skein of Lace-Garn is all of 300 g and a little over 1,700 yards, so there is a lot of margin.
I’ve also made some progress on the sleeve. Not much, but it’s coming along. I’ve knit this part twice as well, just because I changed my mind on where to start the round, and I think this will work a lot better for multiple sizes.
My plan is to block the body in the next day or two, and then block the sleeves (after I’ve knit them, of course – getting ahead of myself a little) separately, and attach them after the fact.
Aside from the cardigan, I’ve also been working on a whole slew of different designs. If everything pans out I will have a very busy summer ahead of me. 
But it’s better to be too busy than to not have anything to do, I think.
This yarn has captured my imagination since the first time I saw it. The very first time I saw it was when Victor (aka Elemmaciltur on Ravelry) knit a Mystic Waters using it. That was back in 2007. The yarn is Wollmeise Lace-Garn in Pfefferminz Prinz, and I just love these blues and greens together.
Of course, as I’m sure you know, purchasing Wollmeise is tricky to say the least, and hunting for a specific colourway even more so. But I was very lucky a year ago, and Nikki (aka kurokids on Ravelry) offered me one of her skeins of Pfefferminz Prinz.
Since then, I have been looking for the perfect project. I have had several different ideas, but nothing that seemed just right. Finally this past weekend I began swatching for a laceweight cardigan. And I can tell this is going to be it. I cast on on Sunday evening and have managed to knit a few rows on the body.
The colours make me think not so much of peppermint as of turquoise oceans in the Caribbean.
As promised, here are some shots of me and the lace cardigan.
It’s meant to be worn open and doesn’t close in the front at all. It works well with jeans and a black tank top, I think, but could certainly be worn with something a little more dressy.
I just loved knitting this cardigan with a hand-dyed semi-solid yarn. It’s quite pleasing to see the variation in colour in the stockinette portion of the cardigan, and yet it doesn’t in any way detract from the lace patterning. The variation between the two skeins I used was barely visible. However, this is not always the case, so even though I didn’t do it, it’s probably a good idea to alternate skeins. Out of the four skeins of Skinny Bugga! I had to play with, three were quite similar and the fourth was visibly darker, and had I used that one I definitely would have had to alternate skeins.
On a completely different note: can you tell spring is coming? I just LOVE this time of year, when the leaves are starting to open and everything is bright green. If you look really carefully on the top picture, you can also see last years’ bright red cranberries…. I guess it wasn’t a harsh winter, so the birds didn’t eat them all.
The Lace Cardigan is finished! Since I don’t have company at the moment, I can’t model it. So only have a picture of the cardigan on a hanger. But I’ll rectify that later – I promise.
This lace cardigan is my own design, and used only two skeins of Skinny Bugga! from the Sanguine Gryphon (for size 36″). I was surprised that I only needed two (I had FOUR to play with, so now I have to dream up another project with the other two skeins). But the yardage was very generous, and I even had a little bit left-over from the two skeins.
The body of the cardigan is knit in one piece up to the armholes. It is then separated and you knit the back first, and then each of the fronts. The small lace edging along the front wraps around the collar. The sleeves are set-in sleeves, and knit flat starting at the lace cuff. It’s basically an adult size version of the cardigan I knit for my daughter last fall, with a few modifications and improvements.
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