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Felix Update

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I finished the body of my Felix cardigan – I told you about it last week – and wanted to show you how wonderful it looks.

Felix cardigan knit by Deborah Cooke

This photo is more true to color than last week’s photo. i just love it! I had 80g of the fingering weight yarn left, so I split it into two 40g balls. We’ll see how long the sleeves end up being. I might manage to have long sleeves, or they might be 3/4. I’m good with it either way. There’s more yardage in the mohair silk, so the fingering weight yarn will run out first.

I had the perfect buttons in my stash. Here’s a close-up of them:

Felix cardigan knit by Deborah Cooke

You can see all the colours in the yarn in this image, too.

The yarn is knit quite loosely for its thickness, resulting in a very light and drapey fabric. It’s soft and warm. It reminds me of this cardigan, which I knit of Kidsilk Haze Trio. That yarn has three strands of KSH spun together in coordinating colours. It’s discontinued so that’s a Ravelry link. The pattern is called Paige and was designed as a colour-blocked pullover with changing shades of KSH. I knit it all one colour, and split the front to make a long boxy cardigan. My Ravelry project page is here.

Paige by Lisa Richardson, with modifications knit in Kidsilk Haze Trio by Deborah Cooke

But being reminded of this sweater meant I was reminded of something. You can see the gradations in the green sweater in this image and also (aha!) a ball of KSH Trio in Loganberry, which is red.

Felix cardigan knit by Deborah Cooke with two shades of Kidsilk Haze Trio

This has been sitting in my stash because I don’t have enough of it to make a sweater like the green one. I do, however, have more than enough to make another Felix in it—and some coordinating buttons in my stash too. So, I’ll cast on another red cardigan once this grey one is done and the stash will be a little bit smaller.

Another Felix Cardigan

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As I mentioned last week, we went to a knitting event a few weekends ago, and some yarn demanded to be adopted. It’s so pretty that it jumped the queue—even though the sweater isn’t finished, I thought I’d show you the yarn and my progress today.

The yarn is from The Loving Path, an indie dyer, and was put up in a kit for Love Note, a pullover pattern from TinCanKnits. (The dyer’s link goes to Etsy and the pattern link goes to Ravelry.) It included two skeins each of a fingering weight yarn (High Twist Sock) and a mohair silk blend (Aura Lace), both dyed in the same colourway (Bewitched) and intended to be held together to knit the sweater. I wasn’t sure I wanted a pullover but realized once I got home that the yarn combo would work perfectly for the Felix Cardigan. (Another Ravelry link.) I’ve knit this three times and love it.

Here are my three previous incarnations of Felix:

Felix Cardigan by Amy Christoffers knit in Rowan Renew by Deborah Cooke
Felix in Rowan Renew
Felix Cardigan by Amy Christoffers knit in Rowan Renew by Deborah Cooke
Felix in Rowan Renew
Felix knit in Noro Cyochin by Deborah Cooke
Felix in Noro Cyochin

Felix is a shorter boxy cardigan, knit top-down with a lovely eyelet detail on the raglan increases. All three of these were knit with a single strand of Aran weight yarn. These two yarns together will be more like a DK weight, but Love Note is knit on even larger needles than Felix. The result is a lacy airy fabric, like this:

Felix cardigan, in progress, knit by Deborah Cooke in yars by The Loving Path

The fabric is soft and squishy, and as light as a cloud. I just love all the gradations in this hand-dyed yarn. It’s all silvers, greys, blacks with hints of turquoise, blue and pink. This looks lighter than the actual yarn in real life. It was a dingy day so I added a lot of light, which means you can see the colours but the shot is slightly over-exposed. It really appears as a smoky black with flicks of other colors. I have some buttons in my stash which perfectly mirror that combination, too.

Another great thing about this is that I’ve known for a while that I need a black cardigan. I have a Hebrides on my needles in solid black Kidsilk Haze but haven’t made a lot of progress—since I tend to knit at night while watching TV, thin black yarn isn’t the best choice for my eyeballs. I’m almost half done this Felix in a week, so (as long as it doesn’t get stuck on Sleeve Island) I should have that black cardigan soon. I’ll show it to you when it’s done.

And finally a bit about admin. I feel the need for a little more organization here on the blog. I’ve been cutting back on my online time (which had crept upward during the pandemic) and am spending more time with my many projects. This is all good but I’ve ventured beyond just knitting. As projects near completion, I want a plan for posts. I’ll keep knitting posts on Wednesdays but will put sewing posts on Fridays and anything related to dolls on Mondays. That should give you an idea what to expect when you visit.