@Ploshkin , that is a really beautiful cardigan.  Wish I could knit half as well.  Impressed that you were able to adjust the pattern for no seams - I really hate them too.

All those cables... mindboggling. 

Jessie

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Finished!  Just sewn the last button on, and safe to say, there won't be another.

It's not a nice or user friendly pattern, but I loved the style of it, and the cable rib.  It's also quite a bulky pattern, and would benefit from raglan, or grown on sleeves, and maybe picking up the stitches on the neckband.

So, here it is, the Cache Coeur for preemie, by Thalie Creations.


Jessie

Well, this is almost done - despite the instructions!

In the end I sewed the neckband on, as I just couldn't get my head around the back stitch finish with the bare stitches.

It all looks a bit bulky, even though it's 4ply, and I won't be using the pattern again.

I'll look for something similar, and use the cable rib pattern which looks very nice.

I've just got the button bands to do (as well as figuring out what to do with the non-button side of the band...)

Hopefully, it will be done today.

Jessie

Hmmm.  Pause for thought here.

I finished the Lil Rosebud dress for Lottie (it's miles too big), and I'm really not too happy with the finish, even after 'blocking' - in a fashion.

I used Patons acrylic 4ply yarn, and it was a garter stitch knit with two patterned side panels.

As you can see from the picture, it's not a good knit - even after pulling and stretching out while it was damp. It probably won't be worn much...

Jessie

Afraid I've been awol for a while with a few health problems.  I haven't managed much, but all of it has been from my stash.

The latest make has been marinading first in the stash, then the scap bag, before being made into strip blocks.  These were left unused for some time, and then I decided they would make a great quilt/playmat.

None of this quilt is planned.  The strip blocks were put together in the order which fitted the size of the block.  The borders were strips cut for another project and lay unused until this project came up.  Backing was a piece of fabric which has been languishing in the stash for rather a while (impulse buy), and the lable was just a leftover, not so pretty, block.

The binding, was a piece of fabric which I bought to dress the swinging crib we bought when my DGD was born.  It's nice to see it in a quilt for her little girl.

Jessie

This has been on the go for quite some time, and didn't start out as a quilt at all.  I just wanted a way to use up lots of odd scraps.  Well, it used up the scraps, but left me with lots of scrappy blocks.  I've intended to do something with them for some time, but no ideas were forthcoming.

Several babies later, I decided to finish it for Teeny Tiny baby Lottie - mainly because I stupidly thought that most of the work was done...

It is very far from perfect, and the lable is very OTT, but my DGD will love it as it has Lottie's name on it.

All materials from the scrap bag/stash, so all it cost was my time.

Jessie

Only began to think about the harmful nature of dyes while I have been reading World Without End - Medieval Novel, Ken Follet, and seeing a programme called a Stitch in Time.  Although neither mention the dangers of dying, it did make me think that it can't be an altogether safe procedure - even with 'natural' dyes, without protective clothing.

Never crossed my mind that modern dyes could be dangerous.

Jessie

@Missie, re the neckband I have cast on 192 sts and worked 8 rows plus 1 knit row - I haven't gone nay further as I'm unsure how to finish it off.  I may just cast off loosely and stitch it on normally.

I thought I was ready to sew everything together, but I had to unpick the back, as it was too long to match the fronts...

Jessie