This is the project I have had on needles since November. I am using 3ply sapphire blue cashmere that was lightly twisted for me. In the future I think I might stick to tighter twisted yarn for lace sweaters but overall I’m not unhappy with the yarn. It’s so soft and half the price of other cashmere out there on the retail market.

I have about halfway done. I stopped to knit three x-mas pressies and all the baby items you have seen here. Everything has been pretty clear. I noticed the diamond stitch pattern was typed wrong in the pattern but earlier in my pattern book it gives stitch patterns again. The pattern is knit from bottom back up through the body, over shoulders and back down the front all in one piece! When done I will only have two seams to finished and then I have to pick up stitches for the collar and sleeve edges. A funny thing about this pattern so far is that the neck area has no selvedge, it’s just raw lace edges. I did not put any in because to take out a full pattern repeat would take up allot of the small area the sleeve is knit on. I hope the pick up stitches of the collar will work out well with this area. I guess this is the problems a new knitter has. I just try to be gutsy, use my sense of logic and knit away! Being scared of your knitting only leaves it on needles longer than need be.