Blue Cotton Cardigan

Yesterday and this morning we had a day and a half of spring-like weather and I hurried to take advantage and photo shoot Gaby's blue cotton cardigan. Only back home I realized that the settings of the camera were wrong for the color and the atmospheric conditions and the cardigan looks overexposed. The color is somewhat true only on the two partial photos (neckline and sleeve).

Pattern: Basic Cotton Cardigan by Pierrot
Yarn: Madame Tricote Camilla 100% mercerized cotton
Needle: 3 mm

I changed a lot of things from the original pattern and, as complacently as that may sound, I am really, really pleased with how this cardigan turned out. And the fit is just perfect (at least for now, she'll probably outgrow it in a year or two :). My detailed description of the modifications is here.

The true color pictures (above and bellow):

Blues

I've been having the blues lately ...
A few lost battles with (governmental) windmills and a bunch
of wrecked nerves can give you that.
And in unison with my blue mood my blue knitting has failed me too:

 I fell in love with zipi's Bronze and decided to knit one in the round, using Camilla 100% cotton:

Only a couple of inches into my knitting I knew Camilla was the wrong yarn and I was not that much into the pattern either. So I started Cobalt:

Halfway through the back I felt this was not the pattern for my ropey shiny cotton, and anyway I wanted something more lacy. So I cast on a new Japanese pattern I found on Ravelry:

Several days later a creepy suspicion made me measure the knitting, only to find that my gauge must have been off and the sweater was coming too narrow. Further sampling and I came with this final modification, adding one purl stitch between every two triplets:

So far I'm loving it. It's a slow process with all the cables and lace,
but I hope it'll be worth it ...