I was flipping through my copy of Sock Innovation by Cooke a not to long ago and saw her sock design called Sunshine. All the socks in this book are designed for someone and this certain someone was named Sunshine. Anyway, I was intrigued as she blended a pretty lace pattern with a cable int he same 6 stitch vertical area, WOW...And then I noticed that every other row was just knit and pearl. Even better. I have no trouble doing a pattern row on each row IF I'm working in the round. The sweater that I had in mind for my next project was a cardigan so either I knit in the round and include steek stitches to cut or find an interesting pattern that I can work from the right side of my knitting while knitting flat. Here it is! I ordered some Stroll sport from Knit Picks right away to see how this might knit up.
I was very pleased with the results...so cast on for a cardigan. The gauge is 6 st. per inch on #4 needles. I'm working up a size 40 so ordered 11 balls of 5 gms. This sweater will have a border added after it is knit so I added 3 extra stitches to the 21 pattern repeats to have a 2 stitch twisted cable and a pearl stitch on the edge. The last stitch is pearled on the right side and knit on the wrong side creating a nice place to pick up the stitches for the front band. I'm not positive what the front band will look like as yet. Thoughts are: lace with garter, simple yo, knit 2 tog. or possibly the twisted garter stitch border I've used before that was inspired by Grimes' book on French Girl Knits. Anyway...more on that later. The sweater will be a cardigan with v neck shaping, all over pattern and raglan sleeves. After blocking the lace will be more apparent but I like the fact that my shaping is done for me because this is basically a ribbed sweater. It will shape in nicely for the waistline. A sport weight gives it great versatility for wearing along on warmer days but not to heavy to add a jacket of colder ones. More on this soon.
