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Kimono Cardigan Sizes 80-112 cm / 31.5-44″ — € () or If you love knitting lace but find lace shawl hard to wear, you may love this loose fitting kimono style cardigan. It comes with lots of free flowing panels that show off the delicacy of lace. It can either be dressed up as an evening wrap or dressed down as a beach cover up. It can even be rolled up and thrown over the shoulder as a shawl. When used as a shawl, the side slits allow free movement of the arms. As a lace weight cardigan, it can easily be tucked in your purse. The stitch pattern is…
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The Production of a Knitting Pattern – Part 2
This is a continuation on The Production of a Knitting Pattern — Part 1. After selecting a yarn and a pattern stitch, I begin to make a swatch. It is during this phase that the yarn begins to talk to me. Sometimes the yarn suggests me to use a different stitch pattern or change the garment shaping. It happened once that a yarn (Debbie Bliss Fez, no wonder that it is discontinued) pilled so badly that I had to drop the design. I only begin working on the pattern when I’m happy with how the yarn is working out for the design. Above is the actual swatch I made for…
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Almost done
I’m almost done with my upcoming design, a lace cardigan. I’m knitting the last sleeve. As impatient as I am, I have already blocked the other pieces and sewn them together. I absolutely love how it looks. This period I have been slow with my knitting, with this hot weather, I find myself sewing more often than knitting. Anyway, I think that I can get everything done by the end of month and hopefully get the pattern tech edited by September.
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The Production of a Knitting Pattern — Part 1
In this series I’m going to describe my design process of a cardigan. This series is not intended to be a tutorial and only serves to satisfy the curiosity of those that wonder what kind of works go behind the production of a knitting pattern. Most of my designs come from my sketch book, on which I record all the random ideas that come to mind. My sketches are just some rough pencil drawings. I’m mostly interested in recording the proportion of design elements. After a design that has been sat in my sketch book for weeks, if I still feel excited about it, I begin to look at stitch…
