The yarn has been calling to me for a year and a half. I finally had to start the project.
I inherited a stash of almost vintage yarn from a friend of my mom’s.
There are plenty of yarns in the stash that were really nice and colors and
weights that I want to make things (sweaters, hats, vests) with. There were a
couple of yarns in the stash that I didn’t particularly like, but for some
reason couldn’t get rid of them. Something about them made me want to hang on
to them and use them together in a project. It’s the weirdest thing.
I don’t
really like the color of one of the yarns in this new project, but I liked it
with the second color of yarn. I’m not sure they even go well when put
together. But there you go, I couldn’t get rid of the yarn, so I had to come up
with something that would use both yarns in a single project.
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| Bernat Berella & Unger Utopia yarns. |
I was clicking through our patterns one morning and came across this
pattern, the 1950s Three Quarter Sleeve Cardigan Sweater - Knit pattern. The
pattern called for mohair yarn, but I don’t enjoy working with mohair yarn…it’s
almost impossible to rip out stitches when I mess up stitches.
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1950s Three Quarter Sleeve Cardigan Sweater - Knit pattern PDF 0858
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I started with a swatch to test the pattern. I hadn’t done a slip
stitch pattern before and I couldn’t figure out how the stitches were going to
work together to create the design. It turns out the pattern rows are easily
memorized and even easier to knit.
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Test swatch, using scrap yarn.
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The yarns were perfect for the jacket. It’s pretty neat looking
in-person. Using the darker yarn as the secondary color means that the color
pops look more like shadows - they are subtle.
I have 4 skeins of the lighter/main color and 3 skeins of the
darker/contrast color. I searched online and could not find any yardage
information for the Bear Brand Curlicue or the Fleisher’s Curlette yarns. That
isn’t too surprising. Back in the olden days, yardage wasn’t generally included
on the label. The original yarns were worsted weight. Here's a link to theVintage Yarn Wikia page for info on yarn information we've run across over the
years.
The pattern calls for 11 ounces of the main color and 6 ounces of the
contrast color. I have 14.10 ounces of
the light and 10.5ounces of the dark yarns.
Here’s hoping I have enough to make the sweater.
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| Slip stitch pattern. |
The project details:
- Yarn 1: Unger Utopia, Color: 171, 100% Courtelle Acrylic, 240 yards/skein.
- Yarn 2: Color: Bernat Berella, Color: 8815/Antq Rose, 100% Acrylic, 200+ yards/skein.
- Needles: 8 US. Chaiogoo Stainless Steel.
- Gauge: 5 sts = 1 inch (per the pattern).
I should have pics of the started project shortly. Fall baseball has
started and we have some Saturday games where I will have to be knitting to
calm my nerves.
Happy Knitting!
