Finally my Cerisara is ready. Making the first sleeve took a lot of time as I tried to do it seamless, after 10 cm I gave up and reknitted it with circular needles. I strongly recomend to use this method. The same  result with much less difficulties.

Here it is - my (unfortunately, not really mine, it is made for my friend) Cerisara.

When the cardigan was washed and dried I saw brown stripes here and there. Fortunately, after the second washinig the brown color had vanished, and  the color was perfect and uniform. It has only lost that light brown shade it had before.
So, at the end everything is OK, I like the result, I'm not disappointed with the yarn and I want to reknit this Cerisara for myself.

Cerisara Cardigan

Today I want to write down some notes about Cerisara cardigan (the topic starts here As soon as I finish the last stitch of my Mantella... ).

I didn't manage to follow the instructions. Even this time. In fact, I made a lot of changes. 

Let's see:

• I knitted all the garment with 4.0 mm needles (at first, I tryed making the stocking stitch part with 4.5 mm, but it was too loose);
• I changed the direction and began knitting from the down of the back part, so the shoulders are perfectly equal and the lace pattern is not interrupted;

• for this reason the lace pattern had to be finished before joining together the back and front parts;
• I added a lot of stitches (74 for my size) once I’ve finished the lace part. It gives more volume as I don’t like when the garment is too adherent.

I like it how it is now. I think I'll knit another Cerisara for me, may be, with some stitches wider on the shoulder and simple finishing along the armholes. 

Knitting non-stop.

As soon as I finish the last stitch of my Mantella blue

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Natie379/mantella-panna

I'm planning to start the Cerisara cardigan by Bonne Marie Burns.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cerisara

It will be a gift for our friend Tania. For now I've made only a sample.

The yarn is so thin that I had to join together 9 threads. Fortunately, I don't knit on the train.