Do you remember me whinging about my learning curve when I started crocheting Clare’s Sweetpea Cardigan?  Unbelievably enough, it is actually finished!

I’m not going to worry about doing the silk ribbon embroidery on it as per the pattern instructions, as I think that it looks rather lovely as it is (and I’m over it).

The buttons really set it all off nicely – they’re from Spotlight – and the lacy edging was incredibly easy to do but quite effective.

And see those sleeves?  I crocheted FIVE sleeves for this cardigan – that is how many goes it took for me to get it right!  Lots of frogging going on there, I tell you!  But in the end I learned a considerable amount about gauge, drape, yarn substitution, reading schematics, and measuring as you go.  If I made it again I could do it in half the time.

The main thing?  It fits, she likes it and she’ll wear it!  Yay!  Oh, for those who like project details – the yarn is Harmony, by Bendigo Woollen Mills which is a wool/cotton/lycra mix (and has unfortunately now been discontinued); the pattern is Sweetpea Cardigan by Candi Jensen, from Interweave Crochet Spring 2006.