Winterfresh Cardigan

In the spirit of knocking another thing off my list, I'm going to post about one of my favourite knitting projects. I started writing the post on February 16th, so I guess it's time that I actually finish it!

I am so excited that I finally finished a project for myself. I've made a couple before (out of the 100+ projects that I've made), but this is my first sweater for me (at least, that actually fits me).

I ordered the yarn a long, long time ago from ..... They were having a big going-out-of business sale and so I placed a big order. I think I ordered about 20+ skeins of yarn. Opening the box felt like Christmas. Anyway, part of my order was 4 skeins of Cascade Venezia, in the colour way Winterfresh. Blue in almost any shade is by far my favourite colour and I especially love aqua. So, with great intention I ordered the yarn. And it sat, and sat, and sat.

I finally cast on for the cardigan at the end of last summer. I wanted a project that was fairly simple, and this project has an almost unending amount of stockinette knitting. It's a really easy top down project, and once you get past the divide for the sleeves, you just keep on going with stockinette. The most challenging thing was keeping up my motivation to with the long, long rows of knitting or purling.

I also got sidelined at one point because my cable connecting the two ends of my circular knitting needle broke. I bought a new one a few weeks later, but it took me a while before I picked up the project again. I finished it off with a bright red button, since my favourite colour combination is aqua and red. I actually wore the cardigan with a red tank top this past weekend. I'm so happy that I actually finished the project because it's one of my favourite things in my wardrobe and I made it! Crazy!

My ravelry project page is here. The pattern is called Lady Kina, and it's a free pattern (in both English and French) that you can find here. There's also a pattern for a mini version of this that I'm sorely tempted to make for M.