Friday 18 March 2016

Knitting For My Big Girl

Today is my daughter Eve's birthday.  My baby is 22!  How did that happen!


Lucky girl has gone to Barcelona for the weekend with her boyfriend.  I'm sure they'll have a great time.

For her birthday Eve asked me to knit her my Kate cardigan.  Here is the original cardigan I made back in 2014.


I love this cardigan, and so does Eve.  Whenever she's home, she always borrows it.  So when she was home at Christmas I offered her the cardigan to take back to London with her.  Instead, she asked me to knit her a Kate cardigan of her own in exactly the same colours, and it would be her birthday gift.  No problem.

Now I have to confess that I'm rather a selfish knitter.  I'll happily knit most things but I'm more enthusiastic if I'm knitting it for myself than if I have to knit for someone else.

It would have been tempting to wrap up the existing cardigan and pretend it was a newly knitted version!  She wouldn't have suspected a thing, would she!  But no, I started off in January, all keen, knowing I had plenty of time to finish it.  But then, other projects kept popping up and distracting me.  And so March came and I realised I didn't have as much time as I thought.  All I can say is, it's a good job she's gone to Barcelona this weekend and doesn't come back to Liverpool until next week because I only just finished it this morning.

Here it is, although at this stage it hasn't been soaked and blocked.



Since taking the photos, it's been soaked so all the stitches have nicely relaxed and it's now drying.  So it will definitely be ready for Eve's visit home.  Full details of the project are on my Ravelry project page, here.

And just to prove that I didn't cheat, here are the two cardigans together!


I'm going to link this cardigan with Linda's Crafty Corner Stash Busting Party and I'm pleased to say that the cardigan has reduced my stash by 317g.  Have a good weekend. Bye for now.

20 comments:

  1. I know where does the time go, grown up and left home in the blink of an eye. Beautiful cardigan Janet I can see why your beautiful daughter would want one.

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  2. Congratiolations with your daughter. Time flyes :-) It is a beautiful cardigan, she will love it.

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  3. A very happy birthday to a beautiful young lady wish I was 22 again!!!

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    1. Thank you Joy. I wouldn't mind being 22 again, a great time of life with so much ahead of you.

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  4. I love the picture of you with the twin sweater, you are a love to make another one for your daughter. Happy Birthday to your beautiful daughter.
    Meredith

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  5. What a beautiful daughter you have!! Best wishes for her birthday. You've knitted her the best possible gift: a fair-isle cardigan. And what is it why we knitters don't like to knit for others?? I'm just the same. I'm not happily knitting along when it's not for myself. It starts to feel like work!!
    So double congrats :-). It's finished!!!
    Warm greetings, Nelleke

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    1. Thank you Nelleke for your kind words.

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  6. Happy birthday Eve. Love the cardigan. I was googling prices of Rowan yarn you used until a looked at the pattern. It's a little off my skills yet but certainly one to aim for. It really is very pretty. I will buy the yarn in readiness!! xx

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    1. Thank you Jo. I hope you do knit the pattern one day, I look forward to seeing how you get on.

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  7. Your daughter is beautiful happy birthday to her and aren't you a lovely mum to make her such a gorgeous cardigan I know how much work has gone into it, now you can be cardigan twinnies, thank you for linking Janet and have a great weekend. :) xx

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    1. Thank you Linda. Keep up the great work with the stash busting parties, they are so motivating.

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  8. Happy Birthday to Eve, and I hope she loves her cardigan. You must have your photos taken together wearing matching knitwear. Well done for such gorgeous work.

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  9. Someday I would love to knit something this pretty. Your daughter is lovely and I think it's great that she admires your handiwork and requested her own sweater. Good job getting it done before her return!

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