While exploring The Sweatshop of Love blog, I found the Aidez Cardigan. I’d never made a sweater before but the pattern was just so beautiful that I had to try it. Amazingly it wasn’t that difficult to complete. I got a lot of help from the blog mentioned above because they were right in the middle of a knit-a-long (KAL). I soaked up all the advice I could find and got started.

I made the body up in one piece, knitted the sleeves two at a time using the magic loop method and made them extra long. I then worked them into the body. I avoided seams at all costs. Seaming doesn’t appear to be very difficult but I’m terrified of what it will end up looking like in the end. I just have a feeling that these little holes are gonna manifest all along the join and that it just won’t look clean. I used a three-needle bind off under the arms and when connecting the collar extensions. I finagled a strange way to knit the collar onto the back of the sweater still avoiding seams. For lots more details you can check out my ravelry project page.

Now here are all the pictures, but I still don’t have any FO photos.