The Ete Cardigan, a finish...........

My first Ete Cardigan is done my friends.  Notice I said first, I just love it.  Do you know how you start to make something for yourself, your favorite color yarn, a pattern you are obsessed with and suddenly it morphs into a project for someone else?  Well that is exactly what happened here.

Instead of this being for me it is now for a darling young woman I have worked on for years.  She is very tall and rail thin.  She is much taller than me and I am 5' 10 ".  She is beautiful inside and out and I mean beautiful like model materiel beautiful.   She will be traveling a lot in the future and I thought this would just help her to feel loved while she is away.  

I finished this while on my trip to NC.  And then I actually got caught with nothing to work on after I finished it.  I went to the wonderful yarn store in the area, a favorite of mine, and did not get the feel for any yarn they had there.  I had my heart set on a soft pink cotton to make this sweater for myself, but they were out of it.  So I left with nothing, I mean no vacation yarn at all.  But when I got home I rectified that as We Are Knitters was having a 30% off sale and boy did I jump on it.  I mean I jumped off the cliff as far as yarn purchases.  All that cotton goodness will arrive tomorrow and I am thrilled.  I may have two Ete Cardigans in my future in different colors, plus yarn to make a baby blanket.  Another baby is due in my extended family this year.

I had a bit of a hard time making gauge with this sweater and went all the way up to a J hook to get it.  Then I realized that the back and the sides were not really wide enough, so I dc'ed along the side edges of both to create more width and to have a better seam to sew the pieces together.  I thought it would also add some stability to the structure of the piece.

I used 4 1/2 skeins of We Are Knitters, The Cotton yarn in the color light grey.  About 1,050 yards of yarn went into this sweater.  I really hope this incredible young woman likes it.  I hope to give it to her this weekend.

I also celebrated a birthday while I was away.  I am not one to make a big fuss over my birthday, I am just thankful I am a year older every single year.  My dear friend Lynda bought me a stuffed sheep, a sheep bag for knitting or crochet supplies, sheep thank ewe notes and this planter.  As soon as I got home I bought these succulents to go in it.  Cute isn't it?

Hope you are all having a good week.  I have been off early several days as most of my kids are either sick or on vacation.  It is sort of nice not to jump back into my super crazy schedule.  

See you soon.