Whatcha' Knitting? May, 2025

#21

I am pushing to finish the Garden Cardigan by Ankestrick for my middle daughter whose birthday is May 21st! Need to get it done early so I can send it to her in Rhode Island. Made one for myself and she really liked it and wanted one.

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#22

That’s awesome!

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#23

I think your bind off alone will take as long as an entire project of mine. I admire your ability, it’s so well done, perfect zigs and zags.

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#24

It’s just called Cardigan for Baby by Little French Knits (Florence Merlin is the designer - Ravelry).
It was nice to knit. :heartpulse:

#25

Yeah, it’s going so slowly! My eyes go buggy after just 2 or 3 points.

#26

So beautiful ColoCro, perfectly done

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#27

Wow! I just saw your updated pics. It’s fantastic! I love the way it lights up, wonderful!

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#28

Thank you! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I was surprised how well the glow worked!

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#29

I finished my tank top/vest/slip over today (so many different names for things, it’s a sleeveless t-shirt).
This is the pattern I modified


And this is what I made
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It’s not possible to photograph it well, it is light and see through, the pattern was for a DK yarn, I used a size 1 (fingeing or light fingeing?) bamboo and cotton mix. It’s so soft and light.
I added 2 columns of mock cable on reverse stockinette on one side which are unbroken up to the shoulder. The other side has 5 mock cable columns which ‘break’ in random places and the reverse stockinette background panel continues up to the neck and shoulder. And I distressed the front centre panel by pulling on the stockinette columns to make a sort of rough open look (more towards the top fading as it goes down). The back has similar mock cable on rev stockinette panels which break much sooner and become panels of rev stockinette with plain stockinette in the centre. It’s barely noticable on the pic but just adds some texture on the plain top.

I’ve also finished the sweater i did surgery on, but not taken a new pic as that one has been shown before. I took about 40cm off the bottom. Now I have learned to consider the stretch in a sweater with its own weight and some garter stitch stripes it stretched a lot and became a dress. But dress no more. I was worried about the surgery because I am generally useless at getting a needle in on one row without accidentally travelling to a different row, plus I can barely see what I’m doing with this fine yarn. But it all went very smoothly. I’ve worn the sweater and love it so much now. It’s a perfect length. I’m so lucky to have learned how to do sweater surgery thanks to this forum and the many kind knitters who make videos for me to watch!
I hated this yarn when I was gifted it. Now I love it. I’ve just ordered more in this size 1 weight in a different colour and the same brand and fibre mix in the next weight up too. For the sweater and the t-shirt the total cost was £24 which is astounding.

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#30

Enjoy wearing the beautiful sleeveless T!

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