Miss Jane Cardigan

I did it! I made something!

 

And not only did I make something, I made something that fits!

 

I’m soooo super proud of myself as you can imagine

 

This time last year I wasn’t interested one bit in knitting, but a workmate of mine was on Ravelry and I started to properly look at the beautiful things she had made for her children

 

I started to be really jealous so I got my Mum to teach me how to knit (again)

 

I sort of knew what to do from when I was about eight and Mum taught me the basic knit stich

 

Back on viewing Ravelry, I realised all the things she made that I loved the most were designed by Tikki

 

Going off topic here for a moment, I need to let you know that I organise our office Secret Santa, I had heard from staff that the previous person in my role always asked someone to be their ‘not-so-secret’ Santa because if someone pulled out my name, I was sure to get groans of disappointment in the fact that I would know who they were

 

Straight away I thought of my knitting co-worker and I asked her if she wouldn’t mind

 

I of course, knew exactly what to get her because she had been talking about wanting to make it for her little girl

 

She surprised me last Christmas by buying me the Miss Jane cardigan pattern

 

At a first glance, the pattern looked hard

 

 

Really hard

 

But as a wise knitter told me, only read one row at a time and I’ll have no trouble at all

 

So I did, and boy was it easy peasy!

 

Somewhere along the way I had to rip out about 15-20 rows *cry*

 

And drop a stitch on purpose to fix a problem I found a few too many rows down

 
 

I learnt the hard way not to play yardage chicken with my rows, and in doing so also learnt how to start a new ball of yarn part way through a row

 
 

And hide the dangling yarn from the cat who likes to chew on my needles

Oh no wait... that's every time!

 

It’s been a great experience making this and one that I thoroughly enjoyed

 

 

 

What do you think? (of the cardi, not my Husbands photography skills)