Apologies for the grainy photo, my decent camera is AWOL and so I’ve been reduced to using my cell-phone-camera.
This is the tea leaves cardigan. I had such high hopes. It’s too intense, too stiff, drapes poorly. Alas, the perils of my compulsively tight knitting. I would for sure try it again though. I want this pattern to work so badly. I think someday I will get up the nerve to do it again in a slightly finer yarn with the suggested needle size to get a bit of a drapy-er sweater (is drapy-er a word? I hope so). It totally has the potential to be lovely. Seriously, look at the green one on the Ravelry page. Barring the fact that I am not an elegant, tall, willowy blonde . . . I mean, there is potential there for something lovely and soft and etc etc. Cascade 220 is just not the yarn for it.
The current tea leaves cardigan will be unraveled shortly and the pretty red yarn will be reused for something approximating this. If I try hard enough it might actually work out. I am bound and determined to have a pretty red sweater. Lord only knows why though, as my wardrobe is 90% black and grey and colour usually sends me speed-walking in some opposite direction.
