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Americano
Little Coffee Bean Cardigan by Elizabeth Smith
Knitting
Boober
3 months
Needle and yarn
Spud & Chloƫ Sweater
2 skeins = 320.0 yards (292.6m)
Shall We Knit? in Waterloo, Ontario
Notes

Seems this sweater runs big, and fortunately my boy runs small. Trying to make it long sleeved on just 2 skeins of yarn. It’s gonna be a nail-biter!!
Doing it in 2 shades of brown because I love tone on tone combinations - I thought about adding in an orange stripe to make the yarn go further. I’ll likely frog and do just that if I can’t make this work with 2 skeins.

I made it on just 2 skeins - but I had to do the sleeve cuffs in the light shade and all the other ribbing in the dark shade. Disappointing, but I wasn’t about to buy more of the same for the sake of less than 600 stitches. If I hadn’t done the long sleeves - and my son didn’t have freakishly long arms - this wouldn’t have even been a concern.

Really handsome sweater - I’m quite happy with it, and I’m planning to make more in larger sizes.

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Finished
August 6 2011
August 14 2011
 
About this pattern
Little Coffee Bean Cardigan
by Elizabeth Smith
from The Brown Stitch
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About this yarn
Sweater
by Spud & Chloƫ
Worsted / 10 ply
55% Wool, 45% Cotton
160 yards / 100 grams
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  • Originally queued: July 29, 2011
  • Project created: August 6, 2011
  • Finished: August 14, 2011
  • Updated: August 22, 2011