FOs: The Cardigans

Or rather, a cardigan and a vest (but I couldn't help it choosing this title...:)).

First up is Twinkle's Biker Vest from Big City Knits. The pattern is meant for the Twinkle Cruise Yarn, but I wanted it to be more like those small quilted vests that were in fashion earlier this year (and hopefully will be for another few months... ;)), so I adapted the pattern to the super bulky wool yarn and knit on Needles size 9.00 mm to get a dense fabric. My Ravelry project page is here.

Next up is my 8th garment for NaKniSweMoDo: Polly from Kim Hargreaves' Thrown Together. It's knitted in Araucania Nature Wool Chunky (a really nice yarn!!) in a semisolid dark grey colour (a bit overexposed in the photos). I used the well-known trick of swapping skeins every two rows to avoid pooling or visible skein differences. According to the pattern and several Ravelry project pages the yardage I had in my stash was insufficient, so I decided to make the sleeves 3-4 cm shorter to be able to use this stash yarn anyway (I've used quite a lot of yarn from stash recently - yay!). It turned out that this wasn't at all necessary as I still have a bit less than half a skein left over, but I didn't really want to redo it after seaming it all together... :)

Like most Kim Hargreaves' designs this is a really nice one too. Simple yet effective - and wearable. As you can see, I used four different buttons; I didn't have four similar ones of that size in my inherited button stash (yes, my grandmother's again), so I found it better to use four different ones of similar size and colour - a bit more fun to carry these buttons and their history around than heading off to buy four new ones.

And here's my Ravelry project page for Polly.