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As mentioned last week, I bought too few buttons (Drops mother-of-pearl buttons, 2 cm, in color Moonbeam), so you see the cardigan held together at the collar with a shawl pin. And you can also see the bottom band and hence the bottom button being too small. Other than that, I love this sweater.
This pattern is "Guernsey Girl" by Anne B. Hansen and it's made in Drops Alpaca in the color sea green. It's blocking now (I wore it twice last week before blocking), in hopes that the band will stretch enough to make the surgery unnecessary. But if not I'll snip the seams holding the button bands to the bottom ribbing apart and then cut the ribbing band off going through the top row of ribbing, then pick up the bottom row of the body and knit a new ribbing going down with some increases first. I can calculate the necessary number of stitches by measuring the actual finished stitches of ribbing per cm.
I have been meaning to start learning Fair Isle colorwork for years. I want to make proper Fair Isle designs and I bought a book on the subject a year ago, but I kept making just one more single-colored sweater that I urgently needed, you know how it is. Anyway, I think I will start with just two colors - I've knitted two-color stranded colorwork before several times of course - and I'm leaning towards buying the yarn for Windermere by Marie Wallin to fill out my order of the buttons. After that I'll see if I have enough scraps of different fingering-weight yarn colors to do a vest.
This pattern is "Guernsey Girl" by Anne B. Hansen and it's made in Drops Alpaca in the color sea green. It's blocking now (I wore it twice last week before blocking), in hopes that the band will stretch enough to make the surgery unnecessary. But if not I'll snip the seams holding the button bands to the bottom ribbing apart and then cut the ribbing band off going through the top row of ribbing, then pick up the bottom row of the body and knit a new ribbing going down with some increases first. I can calculate the necessary number of stitches by measuring the actual finished stitches of ribbing per cm.
I have been meaning to start learning Fair Isle colorwork for years. I want to make proper Fair Isle designs and I bought a book on the subject a year ago, but I kept making just one more single-colored sweater that I urgently needed, you know how it is. Anyway, I think I will start with just two colors - I've knitted two-color stranded colorwork before several times of course - and I'm leaning towards buying the yarn for Windermere by Marie Wallin to fill out my order of the buttons. After that I'll see if I have enough scraps of different fingering-weight yarn colors to do a vest.
