I love knitting friends – we really enable each other’s habit. In this case it’s a friend I haven’t met yet in real life – but one of these days I intend to!
Vivian was working on Flower Cardigan and I had to run to Ravelry and buy the pattern. This is what I cast on as soon as I finished the baby sweater.
Starting from the 6 petal flower.
The designer, Ewelina Murach, has created a whole line of patterns based on this flower. As someone who is addicted to Hexagons right now, I can attest that the six sided shape (hexagon) is a wonderful design as a jumping off point.
The sections held by waste yarn will be the sleeves and neckline. The rest is the body of the sweater. This is much more impressive than it looks, I knit this on my 15 flight home from Israel. Luckily, with the help of Ambien I did sleep 7 of those hours, but for most of the rest of the time, I was knitting. The plane was dark for the whole trip, We left at 1 am Israel time and basically chased the night all the way to LA. as we were coming in for landing the sun was rising behind us in the east. Yes, seeing a sunrise in an airplane is pretty spectacular, I was in the middle seat – so to try and get a picture just wasn’t going to work well.
All this to say, I knit this section with a tiny clip on light and I’m proud to say – no mistakes. The flower itself was complete before I boarded the plane, but still working the increases correctly is quite an accomplishment.
Home and working on the left front. I can’t stretch the work out because my needle is only so long. 
This gives an idea of the front. I am knitting this out of Cascade Elysian, a super wash wool and acrylic yarn. I LOVE this yarn. It is wonderful to knit with and the stitch definition is amazing. Oh, this is a sweater for my granddaughter, so of course it has to be machine washable. Love it when I find the perfect yarn for the perfect project. I would be happy to knit myself a sweater out of this yarn – it is that good.