CeCe: June 2006 Archives
I would love to be able to tell you that I got this finished up right after we went to Michigan. Truth be told, however, CeCe went to Michigan with me, but I never once did anything with her that could be remotely construed as working on her. I felt a little guilty, but I did plenty of other crafting, just not a lot of knitting.
CeCe is a lovely and easy to follow pattern. Bonne Marie did a great job of making a potentially complicated set of instructions easy to follow. And for the size I was making (the second smallest size) I found no errors at all. The lace pattern selected is a nice pattern for a not-quite-mindless by not terribly difficult lace knitting experience. I liked watching the over all design take place. If you've never knit lace in a garment before and want to try, this little cardigan would be an ideal way to get yourself started. I didn't make any adjustments to the pattern, although I have been wondering how it would look with a seed sttich border instead of the ribbing. I did a tubular cast on, and I thought that would give me a loose stretchy edge, but it didn't give me quite as loose an edge as i would have liked.
The yarn i chose turned out to be a nice pick for the project as well. I had some Butterfly Super 10 in my stash that turned out to be right on target as far as the gauge was concerned. It's a mercerized cotton, so it has a nice sheen that gives the sweater a little extra depth. To block CeCe, I used an iron on a setting high enough to generate steam. Then I put a towel between the sweater and the iron which allowed the heat and the steam to work it's way through to the garment without actually touching the iron to the garment.
And that's pretty much all there is to say. I could actually see making another one of these sweaters in a different color because I think this little sweater is so versatile for summer wear -- and there are almost no sweaters that I've ever wanted to make a duplicate copy of. No back shot of this sweater -- not because there's anything wrong with it, my photographer just didn't have time for a full-fledged photo shoot.But you do get to see my nifty new glasses. Sometimes a girl needs a pair of cheetah print frames!
