Land Girl's Sweater

I have finally finished another sweater project. That's two sweaters in one year! For me that's a lot of knitting. This is the Land Girl's Sweater by Rowan Yarns. It is one of their free patterns on their website. I purchased some Rowan Felted Tweed yarn in the Celandon (mossy green) color on a trip to London previous fall. I got to shop at Liberty of London for my birthday and this is what I chose as my present.

This pattern is actually called the Land Girl's Moving Cable Sweater and the two rows of double cables are suppose to wander away from the center panel and back again with the widest part of the wander just about at the bust line.

Because I am a larger lady, those wandering cables are not going to wander about my bust. I brought those cables straight up the front of the sweater. Also, I cannot just follow the directions, there is always a variation on the theme and this is my variation. I also lengthened the sleeves the original sleeves stopped at the elbow and mine stop below the elbow away from the bust.  Directions are general guidelines, right?

More Crocheting and Another Doily

This was a free pattern available on the Internet from the Antique Pattern Library.  Corticelli originally published the pattern in 1919 in a pamphlet entitled, “Lessons in Crochet: Book 5”.  It is a very large and beautiful table centerpiece doily, a true masterpiece.  The original pattern requires “Princess” Pearl Cotton and the finished doily measured 37 inches in diameter.  The original materials for this project are no longer available. I chose a popular cotton crochet thread and bought two spools, thus giving myself over 1000m of yarn.

This took awhile to complete. There were over 60 rows to this pattern and not all of the directions were entirely clear. Thank goodness for the internet and its many resources for photos of finished projects and other notes. My finished doily is 25 inches in diameter. It's now on a oak reading table in the library.