Dedicated to Malvina Reynolds’ Little Boxes Song.
Knitted with yarn handdyed by Claudia Strickreich
Pattern is a simple checkerboard pattern resembling to little boxes.
Started with the front parts and extended the two inner edges with another square which will later form the neck collar part.
Back was knitted to the front parts with additional stitches to fix the two extra-squares for the neck-collar.
The two knit-on front parts were sewn together with kitchener stitch and then attached to the neckline stitches.
After finishing the back I picked up stitches in rust for the collar which is worked in the precise checkerboard pattern.
When the handdyed yarn has been completely worked up on the sleeves, I used an old yarn from an industrial cone which has all shades of blue from the handdyed yarn. The sleeves had been finished with the rest of the rust-colored yarn.
After washing the cardigan has lengthened significantly what was not noticeable on the machine washed swatch. If I had shortened the cardi by knitting one segment less I could have made the sleeves in the same handdyed yarn.
OK: now it’s a design element.

All is worked in one piece. Geometric detail: No knit box hit a knit box and no purl box hit a purl box.

The closure is a reproduction of a brooch of the Middle Ages.