Long-Sleeved Eve

Colinette Eve Cardigan

This is Eve, in Colinette Giotto.

I finished knitting it about six weeks ago, it’s just taken me that long to get around to sewing all the bits together. For those of you on Ravelry, you can see the details here.

It’s a mash-up of two versions of the Eve pattern – the short body from one, and the long sleeves from the other. The short sleeved version took 3 skeins, and this only took one extra. If you were making anything above a 36″ chest you’d definitely need five skeins. I find this ribbon style yarn quite easy to knit with, and the cardigan’s very light and pleasantly drapey. It does tend to go a bit baggy when you wash it, so I knitted a smaller size than I would normally.

I never follow Colinette’s instructions to “stripe” their yarns to avoid pooling, partly because I don’t mind too much how the colours come out and partly because I’m too lazy to wrangle two balls of wool at once if I don’t have to. I’m not totally convinced by the resulting fabric here, which looks like a cross between a zebra and an untuned television. It’s an excellent summer cardigan though, and I’m sure I’ll get plenty of wear out of it. I wear my blue one quite a lot.

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