the yellow cardigan

I thought i’d have it easy knitting this cardigan for my sister. I’m clearly delusional. I must have been distracted while i was knitting it because the body turned out a smidgen too small, which is ok since my sister wanted it to fit more like a shrug, but the sleeves were a lost cause.

I had to knit in ‘filler’ stitches and things snowballed from there. The filler is on the inside of each sleeve so its not absolutely obvious that the sleeve puckers up because the filler is too short and i think i got the tension all wrong while just trying to finish it and be done with it.

The only saving grace for it is that its in a lovely shade of yellow and its very warm so its keeping my sister nice and comfy in Vietnam, where she is based for work for a while, since winter is in full-force out there.

The actual colour of the yarn is the soft buttery yellow in 2 of the pictures. My camera didn’t want to co-operate for the close-ups :-(

 

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