Best Laid Plans

Hooray! I finished all the pieces for the Cascade Sky Cardigan over the weekend. (I had hoped to get it put together by today (my bday), but we've had some medical problems in the house, so we've been a bit off schedule and spending time in a hospital room rather than in a comfortable chair at home. A blue Lego "pod" has proven quite fun in the hospital and good for travel.)

When I first plotted this cardigan, it was because I wanted to use the Skye. The Slate colorway I purchased a few years back at Stitches West is so pretty - but I only bought 2 hanks at the time. So, I wanted to work with it, and I had a lot of purple Cascade 220 from another Stitches excursion (originally purchased for Jo Sharp's Wattletop).

I wasn't sure exactly how far my Skye would go, however, and I wasn't feeling like I wanted to work both sleeves at the same time given the constant stopping/starting of the striping. So I was conservative in plotting the row counts/frequencies for the striping pattern I used for the sleeves. Ultimately, I could have used much more Skye. Towards the very end of the final sleeve, I had to roll the second hank of Skye. Needless to say, I have a lot left. I was struck, again, with how beautiful the yarn and colorway is, however, when rolling the ball. Here's an untouched closeup that hints at the rich play of color within.

Hopefully more time to catch up - and to finish the cardigan is coming. In spare moments, the Touch Me scarf is an easy thing to work on - and I'm working on two double points now so that the needles are short enough that the project is workable even with sleeping boys sprawled all over me at night.