Seeing Red

Seeing Red Cardigan
Details:
Started: August 2007
Finished: September 2007
Pattern: My own, based on Elizabeth Zimmermann’s seamless yoke sweater and a cable pattern from my old Harmony Guide stitchtionary
Materials: Approximately 14 balls of Filatura Di Crosa, Zara, colour 1493
Needles: 3.5mm

Yep, I know my head is cut off, but it was a bad hair day and I really looked awful. Anyway, I think this shows the sweater much better.

This cardigan started out with me deciding it was time to clean out the out-of-control stash. I had 10 balls of Zara that I’d bought a couple of years ago, without having any project in mind. I tend to do that a lot. It might just be the reason for my out-of-control stash. Anyway, it was time to either knit it, sell it or give it away. Well I decided to knit it. I knew that 10 balls would not be enough to make a sweater for myself, especially since I planned to incorporate a cable pattern. Also since I really wasn’t sure what I was going to do, I figured I should get some more yarn. Luckily my LYS had four balls left in the same dye lot. I was seeing red everywhere so I decided to call it my Seeing Red cardigan.



Front and sleeve detail


Yoke


It knitted up really fast and I enjoyed making it so much that I’m planning on making another sweater with cables.



It’s an Elsebeth Lavold that appeared in an old Knitters magazine, Winter 1998. The pattern calls for Lopi Lite but I’m going to use Filtes King Extra, 100% Australian Merino. It’s so much softer that Lopi. I made a sweater years ago from Lopi and swore I would never use it ever again!