Notes on the Hemlock Ring Cardigan

There’s been some people asking how I made this one. So I will try to give a basic description on how to make it but without any precise sizing instructions.
Yarn: Pick any you like. I used 1 strand of cotton and 1 strand of cotton-viscose.

Needles and gauge: Choose the needles that makes the pattern and yarn look good. I used 7.0 mm with a gauge around 12 stitches / 20 rows per 10 cm.

Knitting: Knit according to pattern until it’s large enough to reach from underarm to underarm. Decide how many stitches you need for the arms and where to place them. I placed the arms centered over two of the eight “leafs”. See the image below in turquoise.

Then knit in pattern until first arm. Take a piece of scrap yarn with similar thickness and knit across the desired number of arm stitches. Place scrap yarn stitches back on left needle and continue knitting in pattern. Repeat for the other arm and continue in pattern til end of round.
Next row: Take note on where in the pattern you are (e.g. just ended row 45 and next row is 46). This row should for simplicity be an all knit row. Updated: The row where you add the scrap yarn should be an all knit row.

Continue knitting until desired size. This is easier to do if you open up the holes for the arms first.

Arms: Pick up the stitches on both sides of the scrap yarn plus at least one on each side. On the side closest to the center continue knitting in pattern for a few rows (at least until the entire “leaf” is complete ) and on the other side begin feather and fan pattern. Depending on the number of stitches you have on the needles choose how to make the feather and fan pattern. Mine is a 6 yarn over pattern with accompanying decreases made twice, once each side.

Hope this helps! Any questions, just give me a holler.

Have a nice weekend!

Hemlock ring Cardigan is finished

Yeah! It’s finished and I love it.

I want to make another in my own design. Until then I will keep this construction to myself. 🙂

WIPs

I belong to the category of people who start new projects before the others are finished. What I’m working on right now (I mean the projects that I actually knit on regularly) are three different projects.

First, the Hemlock Ring Cardigan.

Inspired by Jared Flood’s (Brooklyntweed) Hemlock Ring Blanket based on the Hemlock Ring Doily I knew right away I wanted to make this cardigan. A fun knit, but each row end the end took soo much time….

Second, a brioche stitch sweater. Pattern name Puck.

The yarn is called Visjö from Västergörlands ullspinneri in Sweden. The blue yarn is variegated. I fell in love with the pattern when I visited a yarn shop in Stockholm this summer. It was lying there on the table calling my name….Of course I had to buy yarn and pattern to make one for myself. The reason for not starting until last month is that the original pattern isn’t knit in the round. Before starting I had to come up with nice looking ways of doing increases and deacreases. I finally managed to do so at the Stickfest i Väst (a very nice knitting gathering outside Gothenburg in October).

Third but not least, I’m also working on a lace shawl by Triinu Andreassen.

I went to a lace workshop with Triinu at Stickfest in October. She makes the most wonderful shawls and it was so much fun to knit lace on small needles. So I had to buy one of her patterns (called Till minne). Besides, I already had the yarn for it waiting in my stash. The yarn is baby alpaca in black from Marias Garn in Stockholm. Who cares if I had to buy two sets of circular needles in order to find the right one. I eventually setteled on 2.5 mm addi lace needles. I have just started but this needle is really great.