complete.

It’s dry. It’s finished. I don’t love it but I like it. Now that I see the photos, I’m liking it a little more – it’s quite cute.

I wanted this to be a good pregnancy sweater for Spring and I think that is exactly what I got – so in that regard, I am relieved! You can see my bump (which is actually starting to grow finally) and I think as I get bigger, I will be happy for a sweater that buttons at the top but has flattering lines down the sides.

I have quite a few scarves I love with this blue – which is good since I wear a scarf everyday. I knit a size M (38”) but it is actually a 35” (so I ended up with an inch of negative ease). I was hoping for a slightly bigger, comfy cardigan but I think I knit this quite tight without meaning to. Lessons for next time! I lengthened it by 3” as well – I would even lengthen it a bit more. Say, 4.5” next time?

As I mentioned prior, I made my own fabric-covered buttons, which turned out really well. I love them with this cardigan. I backed them with little 1/4” clear buttons to give them more structure to hang - they were causing the sweater to pull down in the front.

The one thing I love about this cardigan and I would do again is the doubled collar. Very comfy and gives it the needed structure around the neck.

Modifications:

• Added 3” length to body prior to picking up the ribbing band,
• Knit it in St st instead of Reverse St st,
• Added one Purl row prior to starting the cuff ribbing, and
• 5 buttons instead of 4.

I hope this sees a lot of wear – I will let you know :)

fabric & buttons.

My mom is a fabulous sewer but she’s been cleaning out her excess supply of sewing notions over the past few years. Occasionally, I get a ‘gift’ from her that was my grandmother’s (whom I never really knew) and I am always saving theses items for a ‘special’ project.

I will tell you more later, but I have not been overly ecstatic about a certain just-finished project. It is currently drying and blocking - I love certain elements of the sweater but overall ... eh.

I do love the yarn. It is Blue Moon Fiber Arts BFL Sport in Spinel. Love. And it was wonderful to work with.

There isn’t much else I love about this project. So, I decided it was time to dig into my button & notion stash and see what I could come up with.

These have been sitting in my button stash forever. I decided maybe I could find some neat fabric to cover them with (I absolutely love fabric-covered buttons but have yet to make a sweater with them – weird, huh?).

Enter my most favourite fabric ever. It’s just a scrape left from some unfinished hot-mats I’ve been working on. This would help bring this sweater into love territory, yes?

This is the back with the instructions – I couldn’t bring myself to cut up the packaging as I would like to save it but nifty, huh? Guess how much this package of 5 stainless steel buttons cost?

$1.02 at The Bay in Winnipeg in who-knows-when :)

For those who’ve never made fabric-covered buttons, they are super simple:

Et viola:

Sweater photos next time.

ps. I realized after my post last time that I accidentally may have lead you to believe that Donegal is in Northern Ireland, the country, when I meant it was just in the north of Ireland compared to where the shop was that I bought the yarn from. Sorry for the mix up!