When your weekend, like mine, includes Monday, you can feel out of step with the rest of society. When it includes Monday and there’s, like, one nice Monday every two months, you can feel like you’d like the rest of society to stick it in its ear. Makes you grumpy. Then you have a shimmering, warm, absolutely beautiful Monday like today, and you feel just so fortunate. You try to pack all the day-off things you’ve not been able to do into one day, because who knows when the next nice Monday might come along. Wash windows, wash the car, clean up the yard, clean the basement…and then collapse on the couch, too tired to even move your hands to knit. And hope that next Monday it rains because you miss knitting and napping.
I have one more spring/summer sweater to show you. It’s another free pattern and is quite quick and simple to knit: It’s the Drape-Front Cardigan, which I made in black Zooey, so forgive the pictures:
Zooey has a lot of texture on its own, so it may be hard to see the double seed stitch on the front panels, but this gives a non-rolling edge that can be pinned or can just drape. The edges look lacy because Zooey goes a bit thick-thin, but they’re also double seed.
Construction is easy and one-piece. Cast on the full circumference at the bottom, work to the armholes, divide for fronts and back, work straight up to the shoulders. Shoulders are joined with 3-needle bind-off, then the sleeves are picked up and worked in the round on a 16″ circular. The last step is to work an i-cord bind-off around the neck to give a substantial and reversible edge. Here’s another look:
So, for summer, we’ve introduced 3 simple patterns that are free with the purchase of the yarn to make them: the Drape-Front Cardy, the V-neck Raglan Cardigan
and our cute and quick Beach Jacket (modeled by Deb Hawk, who looks adorable in anything – thanks, Deb!)
Now I feel like I’ve done enough knitting for hot weather – what comes next?????
