Knitted Fair Isle Cardigan 12

Fair Isle Yoke Designed Sweater:

Fig 1

Hi friends,

When I have decided to make a sweater for my husband's brother's grand daughter, I search for Fair Isle pattern because I have never tried it. Then I like this pattern given by Drop Design

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7714.
After this I made one more (See fig 1A) in Red Heart wool for my niece. Every one love it very much.

Fig 1A

But the wool referred there is 8 ply so I have to see the gauge. Correspondingly I have to make many changes.

Fig 2

There are 6 colors used in Yoke design where as I have decided to use only 3 colors my favorite lavender, dark shade in that and off white. I also used red color for only one round. I have also dropped some rows from the design of yoke due to size variation.

So it is different variation of that.

Actually she is 5-6 years but quite slim so I am going to CO 84 sts in stead of 88 but on the other side the wool I am using is 4 ply and thin so I have to see my gauge. I saw it and CO 88 sts to start with. The changes in colors which I have made can be seen the above photo and I think it looks marvelous. 

Material: Vardhaman 4 ply wool 150 gm lavender color, dark purple 50 gm and off white 50 gm,  knitting circular needle 4 mm, and 3.5 mm

Fig 3

Final size: Length 20", width 13.5", sleeve length 20".

Let us see how it fits,

Fig 4

Here I have uploaded one video of, how I cast on. In knitting books I have seen various types of CO, starting from long tail CO, cable CO, CO by crochet needle, tubular CO etc

CO with double long tail method

Now see this new method of CO which is same as long tail CO only difference is here we take double yarn for the long tail. So it gives sturdy base for our work.

Here is the video for Fair Isle type colourful work in knitting.

   

                                       

She was so happy to wear this sweater and I am happy seeing her "happy mood".

These videos are from my Marathi You tube channel named, कलोपासक "Kalopasak" means one who worships all forms of arts, that is roughly speaking who loves all forms of arts and try to appreciate them. Though the language of video is Marathi, subtitles are given in English. So I think that there should not be any problem. Please subscribe.

Love knitting.