I started to work on the polka dot cardigan again. I had to unravel it, because the tension was too tight, especially from doing the stranded knitting to form the polka dots, I also did a steek, which will be sown on a sewing machine to reinforce it, so once I cut the middle of the steek, the knitting would not unravel. I am knitting with 4 ply cotton. I may knit this pattern again with a bamboo wool mix.
I am also working on a shawl. The wrap part of the shawl the idea taken from the Iris pattern from Kim Hargreaves book "Smoulder", plus I added trebles (or double crochets) in US crochet terminology, the edging is taken from the Sky Shawl by Annelies Baes (Vicarno) shown in Crochet volume 5 from the makers of Inside Crochet. The yarn used for the shawl is Rowan Kid silk Haze in the colours, Dewberry (600) a rich purple, Royal (613), Royal blue, Degas (669) pale lilac. I plan to eventually use the colour Prune, shade 314, from Ito yarn, sensai which is very similar to Rowan's Kid silk haze.
I am working on the second sleeve of the Leopard print cardigan.
