Drive By Blogging: Summer mystery
In the summer of 2013, I participated in something on Ravelry called an "MKAL" - a "Mystery Knit A-Long." The designer of the pattern creates a schedule and releases parts of the pattern one at a time. When you join, you don't know what the finished product will end up being. In this case, the pattern was "Ohh Summer" by Elena Nodel and I knew it was a cardigan and I measured my toddler so I'd know what size to knit. I was told what weight of yarn to use, what size needles to use, and how much yarn I would need. And that was about it. At the end of the MKAL, I had this: Here it is, modeled on my wiggly toddler: This is modified from what is written in the pattern in that I used the same lace pattern from the sleeves on the body of the cardigan instead of the much bigger lace holes the designer wrote for the body. I also knit the body a little longer than the pattern called for. The only problem is that she doesn't really wea...