{"id":220,"date":"2011-09-17T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=220"},"modified":"2015-08-08T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:43:39","slug":"cords-and-cables-crochet-cardi-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2011\/09\/17\/cords-and-cables-crochet-cardi-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Cords and Cables Crochet Cardi (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"cords<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span> Cords & Cables Crochet Cardigan<\/span> by Maureen Mason-JamiesonYarn:Shelridge Farm Soft Touch DKW
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Crochet
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 September 17 2011.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I picked up the kit for this crochet cardigan at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival in 2007.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 I started it a few months later, and worked on it, on and off, for about 4 years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a fun project!\u00a0 And, it has nice attention to detail — like the ice blue edging everywhere.\u00a0 But, crochet is really not my first fibre love (though I started crocheting before I started knitting).\u00a0 And changing colours every row or 2 really put a crimp in working up momentum.<\/p>\n

The pattern is available for sale, and it equally works well in a single colour.\u00a0 You have to be half insane to do the colourwork ( \ud83d\ude00 ), though I know there is another multicoloured one out there somewhere, because I tried it on at MDS&W 2007.\u00a0 This is a size Small.\u00a0 I was a little worried that, after 4 years, I wasn’t.\u00a0 Thank goodness for the “give” in crochet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And, there’s a lot of wool in this one.\u00a0 The cables and cords add dimension and weight to the whole thing — it’s a very<\/span> heavy sweater.<\/p>\n

Still not sure about the button placement — I may opt to move them at some later date.<\/p>\n

It’s funny — after 4 years, I feel kind of empty to be done with the project!\u00a0\u00a0 It’s been a trusty companion, always there when I was between projects.\u00a0 Sort of like finishing a good novel, and feeling like you’re saying goodbye to all the characters and the setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"alt<\/a>\"open\"<\/a><\/td>\nMore front views — with the top closed and open.\u00a0 Note that it’s asymmetric, and there is only one pocket.\u00a0 (But, there is a pocket!).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"back\"<\/a>\"back<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Back views.\u00a0 The picture on the left captures the colour really well.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"flat\"<\/a><\/td>\nFlat view.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"pocket<\/a>\"collar<\/a><\/td>\nDetail — the pocket, with its edging; and the collar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"button<\/a>\"cuff<\/a><\/td>\nDetail — chain & single crochet button loop; cuff (same colour progression as collar!).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"arty<\/a>\"inside\"<\/a><\/td>\nAlternative perspectives — artsy shot up the front, and the underside of the crochet front.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"problem<\/a>\"problem<\/a><\/td>\nOn the left — trial #1.\u00a0 I thought I was going great guns, only to realize I was crocheting backwards, not doing reverse crochet.\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Click the picture to see the issue.On the right — I pulled out almost 1\/2 of the first sleeve when I realized I’d put the shoulder strap on the wrong end of the sleeve.\u00a0 I balled each bit of yarn, and labeled it with the row number, to re-use it in the re-construction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"wrong<\/a>\"shoulder<\/a><\/td>\nWrong and right — shoulder strap at the cuff end of the sleeve — but it makes such a neat progression from the narrowing to the cuff!\u00a0 And, look how much I had to rip out to fix the problem.\u00a0 On the right — all those bits re-crocheted and the shoulder strap on the correct end of the sleeve.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Click any thumbnail for a larger image Pattern: Cords & Cables Crochet Cardigan by Maureen Mason-JamiesonYarn:Shelridge Farm Soft Touch DKW Method:\u00a0 Crochet Completed:\u00a0 September 17 2011. I picked up the kit for this crochet cardigan at the Maryland Sheep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4229-cropped-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-3y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}