Wednesday 4 July 2012

WIP - Tappan Zee Cardigan Pt II

Uhm....that original WIP didn't last long. 'Memba my {initial yarn choice} for the Zee?
While I still love the colours, the feel of the yarn never appealed to me and in a way I was somewhat glad when despite a gauge swatch, my first attempt at the Zee turned out to be too small.

But I did not give up then and there, unravelled my work and started afresh with larger needles and one size up. That instantly made the yarn feel much softer and I happily carried on towards the arm section again.
Somewhere along I must have made an error because no matter how often I counted and recounted the stitches something did not tally up for the larger size. I guess something was trying to tell me to leave off that particular yarn for this project.

As I really wanted to do to {Tappan Zee Cardigan} (I don't get why it's called a cardigan though, to me something without arms is a vest...) I got my frogged Sirdar Smoothie yarn out of the box and eh presto...this seems to work so far.


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9 comments:

  1. I loved the orange and red combo, but the pink looks lovely!
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  2. I agree, the pink is very pretty! Love it!

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  3. How pretty is that!?! It's MEANT to be from that yarn, I think!

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  4. The second version looks lovely in that dusky pink. The color really shows off the yoke detail beautifully.

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  5. So beautiful, it looks like you could wear it as it is as one of those cape things which just go over the shoulders.

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  6. love the pink. will make a lovely cardi!

    I would still call it a cardi, a vest to me is not open at the front, but that might just be me :)

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  7. Love that colour - it really brings out the stitch pattern beautifully!

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  8. I made Tappan Zee last year. Once you are done with the lace pattern, it goes blazing fast! Yours looks great!

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