So I am in the middle of making a cardigan designed by Doris Chan. I sort of fantasise about being able to make a living from creating crochet designs but I have to be realistic. There’s probably less money in it than there is in sports photography and we know where I stand on that. Plus I don’t have much time for it at the moment.
I am at a cross roads. I have followed the pattern to the letter, and am now trying to decide whether to do another repeat of the four rows required for the pattern. To be honest, I thought it would be necessary because I (a) am quite tall and (b) like my cardigans to be long and (c) until I tried it on, I really figured it would be very short. It turns out to end at a place that I’d never normally want a cardigan to end and yet, it’s hanging in such a way as to suggest I might yet be able to get away with it. But I still wonder would it be nicer were I to actually do the extra repeat and maybe two of them. It’d take about 2 hours I reckon which in the grand scheme of things is not a huge amount of time. Ideally I could abandon the plans to make a chocolate cake this evening and just do crochet instead.
If I were right I’d model the work in progress but frankly I’d need time to set that up and I am not in the mood just now.
Instead, I just hung it on the computer and used the iPhone to shoot it. Very easy.
Sleeves still to go and the picot row that I can’t do until I decide whether to do the extra pattern repeats or not. I have to say however the cardigan already looks lovely when I try it on so what it will look like when I am finished is open to debate. As I have to make a second one for someone else, it’s some relief that it seems to be going according to plan so far.
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