I have a new project on the needles that is growing so rapidly that I really have to keep up with blogging about it before it hops off the needles. It will be the cozy Diary Cardigan according to the pattern from ANKESTRiCK in the long version. For size M I will probably need 22-23 skeins of Bergamo.

I knitted the swatches in Bergamo scraps of the color curry that I still had lying around here from my Bergalu poncho. When I think of it, I always knit in the samples according to the needle size. So you see, for this sample I started with a needle size of 5mm (5 turns at the bottom), then I carefully felt my way towards 3.5mm. I mark half needle sizes with purl stitches, you can't see that well here on the picture. With the needle size 3.5mm I come to the gauge given in the pattern. So I do not have to convert and besides I like the very dense knit for this type of cardigan also very very well.

I am missing a dark cardigan in my closet, not black, but dark. So I decided on the color pine and I'm really happy with it, my diary will be so great!

The pattern are really again (just like the Whippet) very great and described in detail. For beginners it is nothing - I must also say - but if you have already heard of reversal stitches and have knitted loinstructionsttern before, then you can also manage the diary.

The collar is knitted in garter stitch, and the absolute highlight I find these wonderfully successful edge stitches. The last three stitches are knitted or picked up alternately in the back and forth rows, creating a really beautiful edge.

Here in the last picture you can see well how the cardigan is created. Knitting is namely from the top down and of course without seams. It is first in the middle of the collar provisionally struck. The collar is then knitted a piece in one direction and then (by dissolving the provisional cast-on) in the other direction, before then stitches for the back are picked up and the actual knitting (always complete over collar, arms, back, collar) begins. The curve in the collar is created by regularly worked short rows.

Isn't he great?