Objet fini

Before anything else, I ribbed. Ribbed the tank (Sage from The Summer tweed Collection) I had knit with this Summer Tweed some two years ago. It never really did fit, and the holes those double yarn overs produced in the fabric were a little bit too much for my taste. So. I tried to rib Summer Tweed. I did not expect that it would work, since the thread of Summer Tweed is not the strongest one, you can actually rip it apart quite easily.
The ribbing worked. Better than I had expected. I calculated, bought some additional three hanks and started knitting again. This time it would be a sweater with long sleeves.
I made a swatch. Designed and did the maths. I started knitting and found that the yarn knitted over more than 20 stitches behaves differently, gives a different gauge and all. So I ribbed once again, did the maths based on what I had knitted and started anew.
Now, the sweater is finished. Actually, my first raglan sweater ever. I put it on and did not want to take it off again. Looks, as if I might finally have a Summer Tweed garment in my wardrobe that I actually DO wear!

Now, the good piece is drying. Had to do this. This last test to all knitted garments. Washing. And looking what is happening to it.
I liked knitting it. Summer Tweed has a character of its own. It is crisp, astonishingly soft and decidedly opinonated. But I like that for a change.

And now, as this first ribbing of Summer Tweed was successful, I ribbed today the second Summer Tweed garment - Cinnamon - in blue, also from the Summer Tweed Collection.

I loved the design, its feminity,  but I was not able to get the gauge as indicated in the pattern. And so I had to do the maths. I made them, I knit. I got a really fitting Cinnamon that was on the really tight side. And then, after the first wear, maybe also the second, the bands started to sag. I wore the cardigan from time to time, but not very often, and so. Well. It is ribbed by now. Will going to knit it into a simple sweater. In all it’s bluish beauty.