This week’s knitting post is a few days early, but things are a bit upside down with the blog tour etc. It’s done so you get to see it now.

This is the Sweetheart cardigan – the pattern specifies regular KidSilk Haze. Instead, I knit mine with solid KSH on the borders and Kidsilk Haze Stripe for the main part of the body. I used the Forest colourway for the KSH Stripe and the borders are in Nightly, which is solid navy. Here it is:

It still needs to be blocked, but looks pretty good already. 🙂

I showed you the back of this sweater in an earlier post here on the blog, which is right here.

This sweater has a two-piece cuff, which closes with three buttons. This required a bit of fiddling, because I wanted the striping to come out similarly on both sides of the cuff. I knit one side (the front cuff) then rummaged through my remaining KSH Stripe to find a good match for the other side of the cuff. This is the first one I did – the second one, which you can see in the picture above, came out even better.The other modification I made was adding two more buttons to the front – I used seven instead of the specified five. I thought the five buttons looked too far apart compared to the cuffs.

I’m pretty happy with this sweater and I’m thinking of making another one in another colourway – but not until the fall. (KSH is definitely a yarn to knit when the weather is cool!) It’s an amazing yarn – so light and yet so very warm. This will be a great sweater for travelling, or to take along “just in case”. The pattern as written does require a lot of finishing, but there’s one change I’ll make to reduce that. The front button bands are knit separately and then seamed to the front – when I knit another one, I’ll just knit them in as I go.

What do you think?