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Sunday 3 December 2017

Palmetto


For my birthday I got a subscription to Pom Pom magazine, something I had been thinking about for a long time but since it was a gift the decision was taken easily. In the first issue I received, the Autumn 2017 one, I immediatley spotted Emilia Jensen's "Palmetto" cardigan. I loved the colours as they were used in the magazine but since I still have a massive stash I decided to recycle some DK yarn from a frogged cardigan and some odds bits of leftover yarn in the contrasting colours.

I'm very pleased with the colour combination and also the overall outcome. It was really a pleasure following this pattern, very clear and easy to use. As I mentioned in a previous post, recently I've been using more and more professionally written patterns and it makes such a difference! I didn't realize how much rubbish patterns were on Ravelry until I got the  direct comparison. Saying that, I still managed to mess up the German short rows on the shoulder stripes - I got it right in the back, but not the front. You can see in the photos that the transition from the yellow of the bodice to the shoulder strips is very bumpy and uneven. But then I figured it out as I went and didn't want to unravel it all.

The other small issue is that I blocked the cardigan so thoroughly after finishing that I over-blocked the sleeves and now they're a bit too long. I can still wear it but might make a small adjustment when I have enough motivation to pick up the project again. Also, I'm crossing my fingers that the cardi will still fit post baby-belly... I can't button it all the way down but around my chest it fits perfectly now which means it might be a bit too big once my boobs go back to normal size.

I can really recommend checking out Emilia's ravelry page, there't lots of great inspiration for future projects! I especially love the "Electric Pea" and the "Landskap" cardigans, can't wait for patterns of those to be published.

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Pattern: Emilia Jensen - "Palmetto" cardigan published in Pom Pom Quarterly, issue 22, Autumn 2017
Yarn: Main colour recycled "Cygnet DK" from a frogged project; contrasting colours were leftover bits from my stash