Norwegian Cardigan - In Progress

After the Norwegian sweater I made earlier this year I wanted to try a cardigan. I cast on in November and it's been going well. Instead of the chart used in Knitting Around I decided to use some charts from The Opinionated Knitter.



I put in a kangaroo pouch to lower the neck in front and knitting the final chart I finished the body. I was feeling good about finishing so much knitting so I steeked the collar and it worked! The wonderful thing about doing EZ's patterns is the chance to see her genius for yourself.

Norwegian Mittens

This is the Norwegian Mitten from Knitting Around though EZ also talks about it in the Knitters Almanac and has more instruction for the top of the mitten there. Of course I didn't find that until I had this finished. This is the first of the pair and I have the second one started.

The lighter blue is Brown Sheep Nature Spun yarn and the teal is Lion Wool. I started the cuff with size 4 needles but found that the hand of the mitten was going to be too small. I frogged back to the cuff and used size 5 from there up.

I am still working on keeping the tension right so the stitches lay smoothly but aren't sloppy loose. There are more progress pictures and information on my blog.