Finished pieces, works in progress, and project plans

Oregon Cardigan

Last month, I finished one of my favorite knits to date – my Oregon Cardigan.

I knit it using the kit from Virtual Yarns in the size Petite. I followed the instructions almost exactly with the exception of made the sleeves slightly shorter. To gauge that, I measured the length of the trim from the body of the sweater and then measured from where I wanted to sleeves to hit on my wrists/hands. With that, I could plan how far to knit the main pattern of the sleeves before switching to the cuff design. I did match the original pattern in ending on a row that used Driftwood and Limpet.

This was actually a pretty easy knit, just time consuming. The pattern was written really well and none of the rows called for more than two colors at a time, making the knitting really easy. the yarn was really woolly but also soft and enjoyable to knit with. I have a decent amount of leftovers so I’ll have to figure out some other project to use them – maybe a yoked pullover.

Secale Raglan

In between the body and the sleeves of my Oregon, I knit this Secale Raglan. The pattern is from Harrisville Designs and it’s for their Daylights yarn, but I had this Noro Tennen from a clearance sale at Webs that I thought would make a really nice version. They have a similar amount of springiness, so the broken rib pattern on the hems stands out really well even with the color changes. This was a pretty fast knit and only took about 2.5 skeins of the Noro yarn.

Handspun Inishmaan

Twin Peaks-inspired Skye

Knitting Plans

Coastal Yell

After knitting the Oregon, I really wanted to knit another colorwork sweater. I have a kit for the Eau de nil version of Marie Wallin’s Primrose, but with the weather getting warmer, I didn’t think I’d enjoy knitting an all-over fair isle pullover, so I set that aside. However, I had seen Noelle from Knits ‘n’ Pieces finish her Yell cardigan and I remembered how much I loved Nicole of the gentle knitter’s “coastal” Yell and now have that on my list. I am planning to mostly follow the colors Nicole used, but might replace the main body color with a similar Harrisville Designs color for a bit of cost-cutting. I’m on a yarn buying hold for a bit, but I hope to buy the yarn for that in the next few months and have that as a summer knitting project to be worn at the end of the summer/early fall.

Colorwork cables

Ever since I saw this sweater from a photoshoot with Jennifer Lawrence (British Vogue Oct 2021), I’ve been wanting to make something similar. I have a few cones of Harrisville Designs Highland in Poppy and White that I think will work perfectly for something similar. I’m planning to make it a bit more fitted – more similar to my Vika.