Confessions from a knit-aholic
When I picture knitted garment it is mostly related to winter or maybe a chilled summer night. But when I saw this silver yarn, in a local yarn shop, I was ready to knit something for a hot summer’s day. The top is very inspired by a nice pattern I saw at Knitty.com – I just loved the top part of the pattern, but the temptation to make it my own was to big so I therefore added one of my favourite pattern: lazy ribbing.
The pattern is from Marianne Isager book Strik a la carte. The pattern is called Sukkertrøjen. I thought the greys sweater looked dazzling, but I need more colour.
This cardigan is made up by yarn collected through many different purchases and failed previous projects…..
Red yarn – Alexander palace
Olive green yarn – Liberty
Light green – old unravelled sweater
Every sweater has its own story.
Fascinated by Aran patterns I had to knit this cardigan focusing on the honeycomb and bobbles pattern.
To complement the sweater nice buttons is essential. I therefore visited Birthe Sahl as she has some of the most amazing buttons I have every seen.
Every time I knit a sweater/cardigan that is in need of buttons I visited her shop with my knitted garment. I find that her buttons can support the felling I wish to express with the particular garment.
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