Tuesday 16 October 2012

a new start

Dad has always loved my knitting but being 6 ft 8 and quite large knitting jumpers for him can be long and laborious but when looking in this months the knitter he saw a parttern he liked made by an american knitter which is a cardigan knitting all in one go with a i cord cast on and i cord up the button bands.
Its a massive undertaking but knitted in aran weight it should be ok but added in that the circular needle it will be very heavy in the end.
ive worked for many hours and have completed only 32 rows but when you have 242 stitches on one row i found that i can compleat 4 rows in 1 hour.

for this knit i am using robin wool acrylic aran weight in a 400g ball.
This wool is one of my favourite for men's jumper as its cheep and 2 balls make a very large jumper/cardigan for a man with a 42inch chest.

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