The Details...
Pattern: Central Park Hoodie, from the Fall 2006 Knitscene
Yarn: Brown Sheep Waverly Wool, in the most glorious shade of red imaginable, purchased from these nice folks
Needles: sizes 6 and 7, mostly KnitPicks Options Circulars
Comments: This was my first adult sweater, and I love it to itty-bitty bits! (We'll ignore the fact that 2/3 of my existing wardrobe is already red.) It's warm, squishy, and the cables look deceptively harder than they were. I began it while recuperating from foot surgery, so considering I was knitting on painkillers, I'm glad it turned out as nicely as it did! It's not perfect, but I did my best, and I'll fear the cables no more.
I waffled for some time over whether or not to add buttons, but it think it looks nice as it is. I hate straining buttonbands, too. Although I have a 38" bust, I'd heard the CPH ran snug, and so I went up to the 44" size. My gauge was a teensy bit small, and so this move worked out perfectly.
Lessons Learned: I was concerned about yardage, so I thought I'd take off an inch of ribbing on the bottom and sleeves (I have short arms). Of course, then I went ahead and forgot to actually subtract those inches from the final measurements of the pieces. Oops. Fortunately, I had over one skein of yarn left (which means I only used $36 dollars worth!), so yardage wasn't an issue.
So without further ado...
Katinka's CPH:
Sleeve detail:
Hood detail:
Artsy photographs courtesy of my kindergartner. :)
7 comments:
Looks great! And red is definitely your color!!
Beautiful! That now goes on my to do list :)
Cable are so good for getting the awed looks.
Lovely work! I am just starting the second sleeve of my CPH, also in red. Nice to see it in the finished state!
Heck of a nice way to start off a new blog!
really like that one. It is great. I think that totally needs to go on my list.
It looks great.
I've been inspired by everone else's beautiful CPH's so much that I think I will make my own!
What a pretty CPH! It gives me the motivation to seam mine up and start working on the hood :)
CPH is gorgeous!! The color looks great on you and you're so lucky to have such a talented photographer! Congratulations on the new blog. :)
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