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#toppercardigan

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Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>Finally getting some proper knitting time after a week off falling further and further behind on this cardigan project. </p><p>I'm currently 79 rows behind where I need to be to finish on time, but last night that number was 86 so I'll take it.</p><p>Going to try and stay up for <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Monsterdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monsterdon</span></a> later too so will do some extra rows to help keep me awake! For now, a somewhat frustrating start to the evening's snooker, but I blame John Parrott for jinxing it.</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Snooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snooker</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>It's another <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WIPWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WIPWednesday</span></a>, and my big video plans for this week have fallen by the wayside (haven't had much of a voice to record with!) but I did at least remember to take this pic before it got dark so that's a win.</p><p>Continuing with the few stitches every day challenge on my main cross stitch project, and I also finished the second sleeve of this blue cardigan and have made a good start on the front sections.</p><p>The cardigan progress spreadsheet tells me I need to do an unsustainable number of rows per day to get it finished in time...</p><p>...</p><p>...challenge accepted! 😎 </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/CrossStitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrossStitch</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ThreeToedSloth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeToedSloth</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/The100DayProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>The100DayProject</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>Would love to say this is how I'm spending the afternoon, but in reality I managed maybe 20 minutes before the fear of wasps had me scurrying back indoors. </p><p>Still, it does the pasty white legs good to get outside, now and again! </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Sunshine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunshine</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>I was a Really Big Girl yesterday and managed to get a video published despite feeling awful. </p><p>So today is going to be <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knitting</span></a>, <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/speedpuzzling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speedpuzzling</span></a> videos, and excessive amounts of tea. I'll pay for it with extra work later ofc, but it's needed right now.</p><p>The last few days was the "crippling depression, avoid everyone and everything and curl up into a ball and cry" phase of my post-social-event cycle, but as you can tell by the fact I'm tooting again the worst has now passed. Phew 🎉 </p><p>Let's see if I can finish the second sleeve of my <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a> by the end of the weekend...</p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>The start of sleeve two is coming along nicely, but I'll definitely need to get a wriggle on if I want to wear this cardigan on holiday in June!</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>After <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knitting</span></a> somewhat adventurously for 11 years, I've just finished my first ever sleeve cap! You can tell it's my first, because I've absolutely no idea how to take a good photo of it, but I promise it's more symmetrical in real life than it looks here. </p><p>So that's first sleeve complete on my <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a> project after *checks notes* three and a half months. I'm hoping to have this wearable by summer, hmm, something's not quite adding up there 😅</p><p>215s-02 Topper Cardigan by Pierrot, but be warned it's a Japanese style pattern (ie all charts and schematics, ie an adventure!)</p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>Emergency lace knitting surgery where I well and truly mucked up four rows ago, while I wait for today's video to render. </p><p>What a wild life.</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/DavinciResolve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavinciResolve</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>Progress update on the fancy cardigan! </p><p>Yes, this is almost a full week. Yes it's about six inches. Yes I am enjoying it enough that I'm not worried about how long it'll take. Yet.</p><p>Oh also I called this pattern "Topper Cardigan" the other day but techincally it's "215s-02 Topper Cardigan", so there we go. Keeping my hashtag the same though!</p><p><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/215s-02-topper-cardigan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ravelry.com/patterns/library/2</span><span class="invisible">15s-02-topper-cardigan</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WIP</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>Cardigan update: Kicked off this morning with some emergency lace surgery. Thankfully nothing too complicated, but quite tedious.</p><p>Still, better now than later!</p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a></p>
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher<p>For <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WIPWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WIPWednesday</span></a>, which I have just remembered it is, please accept this pic of a couple of inches of lacy cardigan sleeve.</p><p>It's my first time working from a Japanese pattern (Topper Cardigan from Pierrot), and I did have to resort to drawing on the chart to make it make sense in my head, but we've got there in the end.</p><p>Good lord though, Japanese schematics hold a LOT of info! Really enjoying learning a new thing, especially one that feels so much like solving a puzzle of some kind 😁 </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knitting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TopperCardigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopperCardigan</span></a></p>
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