Knitting Project - Fair Isle Cardigan

My New Knitting Project - Fair Isle Cardigan 

I realised the other day that I have been putting off the Fair Isle Cardigan's Collar :s so i made a big push to try to get it finished for my daughters birthday.

So for the past 2 days I have been knitting 299st for 30 rows in K1, P1, and after sewing it up today I have finally finished it.

Completed jumper - The Front

Completed jumper - The Back

 

It has taken me 6 months to complete it.  It was tough going at times and extremely frustrating especially on the shaping parts, I had to pull some of it back many times before I got it correct, and I can still see mistakes. The pattern itself I found a little confusing at times and I had to improvise :s im not a talented knitter and I am disappointed with the results :( BUT my daughter loves it, that's the main thing!

My daughter Rose in her new Jumper

I finished it on the 10/06/2013 just 2 days after my daughters birthday :D

I think she is happy with it, even though its a little big :s

Going to knit something a little bit more mind numbing now, so i don't need to concentrate as much.

Knitting - Seaside Bathroom

Sorry I haven't written for some time but we have moved..... again.

I have been carrying on with the crochet blanket for my daughter rose, still a lot to do but im getting there with it.
 

Crochet blanket, going to be BIG and HEAVY

and creating a Beach Hut doorstop for my newly decorated bathroom :)
 

Doorstop

I also made a seagull, isn't he the cutest!

my seagull

my seagull

I was going to make other things for my nice bathroom, but my daughter wants me to make her all kinds of things for her new playhouse, curtains,bunting,name sign,rug :s, so my bathroom will have to wait a little bit to get more cute.

Knitting Project - Fair Isle Cardigan

My New Knitting Project - Fair Isle Cardigan 

I haven't completed much on this cardigan over the past couple of weeks but im now powering on with it.
Doing well on the fair isle cardigan for my daughter.
I finished the back within a week of starting, but the fronts were a different story :s took me a week to do them EACH!!! maybe more I don't know I lost interest at one point!

The back completed :)

But I have now finished both of the fronts, but boy was that difficult.  I had to pull it back 4 times at the shaping due to it going wrong, no idea why it went wrong, could have been the pattern? could have been me? who knows but it was hard to finish the fronts.

Both fronts completed :)

I am now onto the sleeves and getting a bit distracted by other things, also I am a bit tired of doing the fair isle pattern, but I shall persist and hopefully I will finish it before my daughter out grows it :s
I really want to start something new but I know if I do I probably wont come back to this and I know its going to look great on her.

Well of I go to do some knitting - chat soon

Knitting Project - Fair Isle Cardigan

My New Knitting Project - Fair Isle Cardigan

I haven't written in my blog for some time now, but I am going to make a conscious effort to do so more often (promise).

So I decided to go and buy the latest edition of the Simply Knitting magazine (number 103) the other day and found a lovely Fair Isle cardigan in it for a child, so I decided to knit it for my 6 year old daughter. I have never knitted anything like this before, sure I have been knitting for many many years and I have knitted cardigans for dolls and babies and added pictures to them, but I have never knitted something for an child and this pattern is rather demanding with all its pictures and concentration involved.  I am only able to knit in the evenings after the housework has been done and the kidlets are in bed so I decided to do the size 7-8 as I thought it would take me a long time to complete but its developing fairly quickly.  I started this project on 25/01/13.

Back - After the first evening :)

 and I have already nearly finished the back.

Back - After the 3rd evening :D

This is growing quickly and I am really enjoying it, but I have made some mistakes and I have had to pull them back but hay-ho these things happen :s

I'm hoping that the collar turns out alright, as I have never used a circular needle before and I don't pick up stitches very well either, going to be a challenge.

Will report in again soon :)