Camellia Sweater

Finally, after a week of cold and rain, the sun is out again and I am able to show you my newest most favorite sweater - Camellia. Based on Kim Hargreave's hat pattern, it is a lightweight, breezy lace cotton blouse with waist shaping, round neckline and set-in three-quarter sleeves.

Pattern: Camellia Sweater, self-modified version
Yarn: YarnArt Summer, 300 g
Needle: 2.5 mm rib, 3 mm body
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Camelia Sweater

 
Last autumn I knitted two Kim Hargreaves' Camelia hats in a self-drafted slouchy version. Gaby's hat was knit in a black cotton-viscose yarn, which I've bitched about ever since I tried knitting with it two years ago. But I've written about the limited yarn choices around and, despite the nightmare of a knitting process this yarn is, the knitting it produced for Gaby's hat is very light and drapey and I kept imagining it in the form of a late summer / early autumn sweater. So some three days ago I cast on Camelia sweater. I took the initial design, which is a clever play with the basics - knit, purl, k2tog and yo over 48 rows and doubled it along the same lines to 96 rows. According to my preliminary estimate I'll need two repeats of the chart for the body parts.

The yarn is as intensely distressing as ever, splitting and tousling, but I'm knitting on in my ridiculous tradition to cast on a summer sweater in autumn. I suppose there's some obvious psychological explanation for it, a desire to hold on to the just ended summer, but it doesn't matter. And maybe I'll even wear this sweater soon. 

Odilia

Pattern: Camellia by Kim Hardgreaves
Yarn: YarnArt Summer, cotton and viscose, 50 g
Needle: 2.5 mm, 3 mm
Time to knit: 4 days

 

Another version of my copper Camellia, this time in black cotton-viscose yarn. Initially, the hat was intended for a friend's daughter, but my own teenage one liked it so much, and though she has many hats, it's a fact, that she doesn't have a cotton one, so this one goes to her. And I'll probably have to make one more Camellia :)

With this hat I experimented another way of decreasing at the top - the stitches are decreased quickly in only five rows. I like it better this way, so I redid my own Camellia too.

The amazing place this photo session was shot - in my next post. Stay tuned :)

Camellia

Pattern: Camellia by Kim Hargreaves
Yarn: Madame Tricote Camilla 6/4, 100% mercerized cotton, 65 g
Needle: 2.5 mm, 3 mm
Time to knit: 2 days

I decided I needed an autumn cotton hat, so I bought a ball of my favourite brick-colored Camilla cotton and made this slouchy beanie. The original Camellia is a short beanie, but I'm into slouchy hats lately, so I just continued knitting in the general style of the hat, until I ran out of yarn. Still thinking wouldn't it look better from behind if the decreases were more steep and dispersed ...??