Starting with Meg
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005After a bit of swatching (in the round, well, flat with long loops), I finally decided on a colourway for Meg’s Fair Isle Cardigan. Instead of the warmer browns/heathers in the original cardigan, I chose cooler greys and plums for my version. I’m using Jamieson’s Spindrift in Black, Granite, Oxford, White, Loganberry, and Raspberry. See, I’ve started the body:
There’s my first 6 rows of corrugated ribbing in black and raspberry. I learned the German Twisted Cast On to prevent the ribbing from curling and love this method of cast on now. It’s more elastic and so I’ve used it for a pair of socks now too.
Rather than knit at Meg’s gauge of 6.75 spi for a 48″ circumference cardi, I’m using smaller needles to knit at 7.75 to 8 spi for something closer to a 40″ circumference. Besides, I think the recommended gauge for Spindrift is 7.5 spi… I figure I have some wiggle room here. The good thing about knitting at a slightly tighter gauge is that I don’t have to resize the cardi or cut out repeats, etc. I can just (hopefully) follow Meg’s instructions as is.
