Lilac pink book club cardigan

[cimorene]

Here's the sweater I knitted so hard that I sproinged my shoulder blade! It's been finished for a couple of weeks, but I finally got Wax to take some pictures of it on me in natural light.

It's good that I hurried when knitting, actually (even if it isn't good that my shoulder is wonky), because I think it's going to be too warm to wear it out more until next fall. I got a few weeks of wear out of it when it was new this way.



This sweater was knitted using the popular Finnish knitwear designer Sari Nordlund's Bookclub cardigan pattern in Filcolana Peruvian aran-weight wool in color 227 ("old rose", but it's more a bright pastel lilac, I'd say). (I made a number of modifications and notes which can be seen on my project page.)

I love this sweater. It has an unusual shape and drape caused by the unusual construction with the Scandinavian-style shoulder, where the shoulder seams are moved onto the back and the fronts curve over the shoulders to meet them, and I love the shape of the front V-neck.

It isn't perfect because the pockets aren't deep enough to carry my phone in - which I knew was happening when I knitted it, but I didn't want to lengthen the bottom hem to make the phone fit or go back and move the pocket openings higher up. Also the sleeves are slightly too long. You never know for sure how much they will grow with blocking, and having them slightly too short is worse.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

It's gorgeous!

[cimorene]

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

[soemand]

Very pretty, good job!

[cimorene]

Thanks! 😊

[cathexys]

Beautiful! I love that color on you!!!

[cimorene]

Aww, thanks!

[torachan]

That's a really cute sweater!

[cimorene]

Thanks☺️!

[viggorlijah]

Gorgeous! I love the cables flowing onto the pockets and I think they are a perfect size for the depth of the cardigan sort of square on squarish. You could unpick and redo the wrists after the weather warms up but I like them over long as a sort of boyfriend cardigan - big on purpose.

Tell Wax it’s a boyfriend cardigan from Buck to Eddie ahahahhahaah

[cimorene]

I am only 5'7". It would be too small even for Eddie!!

[cimorene]

And just imagining Oliver Stark in it is funny.

[cimorene]

But thank you🥰 I liked the cable pocket detail too, that's partly why I left it this way instead of making phone sized pockets like I have for my lounging cardigans in the past! And you can carry the phone in it like, up or down the stairs, it just sticks out. But you couldn't carry it around in it out of the house without a danger of it falling out.

I love boyfriend sweaters although I don't really love the word and I've actually made my last two cardigans before this to Wax's size because I've preferred her hoodies for lounging in for years. Hoodies in my size are fine for leaving the house but to lounge in I would always steal hers. This black tweed cardigan that I designed is her size but I made the shoulders slightly too big and the neck slightly too Deep for me so it's always falling off and it's so sad. At least it fits her too so it's not useless but she's hardly ever cold and I love it so it's still sad.🫤 I call this the Boyfriend Cardigan Problem, bc I want it to be big and the neck to be low but I don't want it to fall off. I'm gonna have to make another sweater like this & try to tweak the fit next year (the pink one isn't long enough to be perfect but it is very cozy so it'll be fine in the meantime).

https://ravel.me/cimness/fihuci. (Original project) https://ravel.me/cimness/61hlxz (after adding pockets)

[tozka]

Love the color! The pocket problem is always a pain with clothing. Even if you could get the phone in there, the weight would probably drag that side of the sweater lower which is just as annoying tbh

[cimorene]

Well, that happens in jackets too, but I have sized and placed pockets for the phone specifically in my longer cardigans and they work quite well.