Not only do I have the Motley Crew-Neck blocking, but I have four days worth of knitting on my next sweater. I may actually finish this one before the end of the month.
OK, so it's Cascade 109 Tweed at 3.25 spi on 7mm/US10.75 needles and a basic top-down cardigan from Karen's Unpattern, but it's a sweater I need and will use for days hanging around home or casual walks and errands. And it will knit up quickly. I've done knitted-on front bands in seed stitch, will pick up and knit a seed stitch neck band and trim the cuffs and bottom with seed stitch. I did a garter stitch detail on the raglan line that echoes the seed stitch trims.
I haven't done many buttonholes and I believe they'd look funky at this gauge regardless, so I'll blanket-stitch them with some crewel yarn, probably double stranded. I have some nice classic black buttons in my stash. And I'll do my first real pockets also trimmed with a seed stitch band. I'm debating if I should do the pockets in some lighter-weight gray Cascade 220 I have in my class-yarn stash. If I feel adventurous, I could double-knit them. Maybe.
Cascade seems to have discontinued the yarn. Either that or everyone cleared it out at the same time to make way for Spring and Summer stock. Actually, it's not on the list of cuurent yarns at Cascade's site. I bought 3 different colors marked 40% off of Cascade's already reasonable price. And I got free shipping. This is color 7616. It feels soft, not at all scratchy, but shows no sign of wear where I cast on and ripped the first few rows four times.
I have enough for probably five sweaters. I hope we don't get tired of it.
Love the Tweed and the sweater will be fabulous with black buttons. You'll have this one finished up quickly from the looks of it.
Posted by: margene | February 22, 2009 at 05:00 AM
Aw, man! I like 109 Tweed a lot. Good thing you have loads in stash.
Posted by: Karen B. | February 22, 2009 at 05:53 AM
Ooh, very nice! I love raglan sleeves- and even better when they're seamless!
Mind telling us more about the garter detail? Is it just a stitch or two of garter on each side of the raglan? Can't quite make it out in the photo.
Posted by: RobinH | February 23, 2009 at 07:32 PM
Welcome back to the blog! And yeah, 109 is discontinued...I was searching for some to make some mittens and wondered why I couldn't find it in any yarn store. Then I learned from its Ravelry page that it had been discontinued and it all made sense! ;) The sweater is looking great! =)
Posted by: ashpags | February 28, 2009 at 08:22 AM