My friend asked me to knit her a cardigan to wear at a summer wedding - the weather in the UK being notoriously fickle on a good day.
This is the finished item. It was so much fun to design and make. There was no pattern for anything like this that I could find so we just drew a sketch and went from there, most of it is a simple case of maths.
What really strikes me about it though is the invisible part. The trust my friend showed in my capabilities as a knitter even though she can knit herself. She allowed me time to work and make mistakes, she even liked one mistake so much we kept it and it's now a major feature of the finished item.
Before I knitted this I'm not sure I was really convinced about my own abilities, but my friend obviously saw something in me that I didn't see. Now though, my confidence is sky-high, I'm garning knitting projects from all over and I just know that I can complete them and that people will love them. Without this first one though I would have been lost.
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