Caressa

 
Here's my newest design, Caressa. I called it that because it feels like a soft embrace as I wear it. All cotton (Hobby Lobby's I Love This Cotton) size 7 needles for the body and 5's for the neck and cuffs.
I began with short rows for the back neck and increased using Make One increases which is lifting the bar between stitches and knitting it.
The cool part about doing circular yokes, is that the increases fall in line as the work grows, resulting in no markers or very little counting. Love this easy construction.

The yoke is just knit to the armhole, put on waste yarn and then the body is begun, adding 8 stitches under the armhole for fitting ease. When the sleeves are knit, another casting on of 8 stitches is needed to make it all fit nicely.


The shenanigans I go through to make passable photos for the blog! I have hat hair from walking the dogs in the cold morning wind.

When I bought the yarn, it was on sale and there were only 5 green skeins left, or 900 yards. At home I had one pink skein leftover from my previous cardigan and so this color combo was born. I used up every tiny bit of the green and the inside pockets are partly pink, to compensate. The sleeves are 3/4 length, which turns out to be just right. 
This is my seventh finished cardigan since the beginning of the year.