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January journal: cardigan
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I've been working on a cardigan for one of my nieces (hopefully the larger niece), using Kristen Rengren's Barberry pattern. I'm using a brilliant green yarn that's very hard to photograph. This photo with the 500 Queer Scientists' narwhals is probably the truest representation I've managed of the color:

Here's a picture of the main body, showing the cable pattern:

The project has been taking longer than I'd hoped, in part because I was very confused by the instructions for the hood and had to rip it back a couple of times. The trick is that there are two separate side seams, when I was expecting more of a single folded rectangle. Here's what that looks like prior to assembly:

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I really like Rengren's book on vintage knits for babies, and wish she had more patterns for larger children.
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