Sometimes the best laid plans go astray...
Fresh from the success of Buttercup last week, I had envisaged showing you some lovely pictures of my finished Drops Alpaca Cardigan today, however it was not to be. I am happy to share a picture of the finished cardigan - but you just won't be seeing me wearing it.

Project Specifications:
Pattern: 97-18 Tailored Cardigan available for free from Garnstudio
Yarn: 9 balls of Eki Riva Alpaca
Needles: 3.25 Addi Turbo circs
Project Started: July 2007 for the Tour de France KAL
Project Finished: November 2007 well after the Tour de France was already over
So why won't you be seeing me model this cardigan? Because as lovely as it looks in the picture, it looks terrible on me. You see I am short in the body and long in the legs which is something I have always known but it has never really affected my knitting before. However with this project the buttons hit too low on my body and to be frank it just looks ridiculous. So as much as I love the project I know I am not going to wear it as is. To fix it I would need to pull off both of the fronts and reknit them so that the slope starts higher and the button holes are much higher. Frankly I am way too lazy to even contemplate this so I have bequeathed the cardigan to my friend Tam. For the amount of socks she has knitted me in the past she probably deserves it. (Btw - it is not sitting quite right on the dressmaker's dummy which I didn't realise until looking at the photos now. I promise you, it is a really nice cardigan no matter how dodgey my picture taking is.)
Not to be outdone by one stinking knitting disaster, I have started two new projects. Firstly we have the Lace Rose Sweater from Rebecca #31. I had briefly contemplated this project when the magazine first came out, but after seeing Isel's gorgeous version I had to have one for myself. I haven't knitted on 4.50mm needles in a while, but you've just got to love how quickly a project grows on those things. Here is the back already finished and I have just started the lacy pattern on the front as well. There are a couple of sweltering hot days forecast this week so I am hoping the front might not take too long since this is the only cotton project I have on the needles.

The other project which I started was kinda planned, but kinda unplanned. Meg and I had been contemplating knitting Arisaig together for a while now. I had been putting it off and acting all noncommittal about the whole thing as really I wanted to finish off Buttercup and some other WIPs and then I fell in love with Serrano and had every intention of knitting it first. But that evil woman Meg somehow made me commit (during a moment of weakness I might add) that if we hadn't started Arisaig by January 1st, we would start it together on that day. Well I realised that if I started Serrano now and Arisaig in January that unless I was absolutely confident that I would finish Serrano in time, there was every chance than neither project would get finished. Hence I now find myself knitting Arisaig first. Hopefully I will still be motivated to knit Serrano next year.

I am using Rowan 4ply soft in the colour Sooty and it really is knitting up beautifully! I am loving the colour and everytime I knit with this yarn I remember why I like it so much. However, why don't you all go and ask Meg how her Arisaig is coming along. Or where is it for that matter??!!
I think I've been stooged.















