The ‘medium’ rating is because I know how to do the two-handed FairIsle now, BUT there were some serious struggles and setbacks while making this, including frogging, cutting segments off, learning new techniques… Long term project.

Snowed In At Wheeler Street by Kate Bush & Elton John

My colours:
Zur Lederhos’n = Dark Green
Fratello = Cinnamon Brown
Igor = Turquoise
Jeton = Yellow
Schwefel = Green
Granatapfel = Red
Natur = Light Beige

GAUGE = 30.5 sts x 35 rows

October 22 - 2014
It Is Finished And I Am Wearing It. Happy.

October 21 - 2014
Attaching clasps. Blocking. May add dark green ribbon to cover sleeve steeks, but maybe not.

October 7 - 2014
Sewing the sleeves back together again.
Finished the edging.

October 6 - 2014
C-A-S-T O-F-F today. Ha! Sewing edging down onto cardigan raw edges.

October 3 - 2014
Picked up sts all around. Found clasp closures called ‘Kari’, how appropriate.

October 2 - 2014
Cutting up sleeve for easier embroidery. Picking up edging stitches with crochet needle. Not sure what kind of edging to make yet.

September 30 - 2014
Fixing the mistake (?) in the edging; I did follow the instructions, but I don’t like the effect. It looks like a mistake.

September 29 - 2014
For me, the trick with duplicate stitch was not to pull the strands too tightly. It did help to watch this on YouTube too. Very pleased with results so far.

September 19 - 2014
Embellishments; filling in the leaves etc.

September 18 - 2041
Ready for a lot of steeking, but first the embellishments and reinforcing (the latter with sewing machine).

September 1 - 2014
Finished sleeves

August 26 - 2014
Picked this up again, I want to finish it :))
Halfway up both sleeves.

May 12 - 2014
Picked this up again, I want to finish it.

December 5 - 2013
Love the two-sleeves-at-the-same-time system.

November 8 - 2013
Adding an extra repeat to the sleeve anyway, now at the cuff. I do want it to be a full length sleeve. Added 18 rows.
Cast on will be 64 sts for one sleeve + 5 steek sts + 64 sleeve sts + 5 steek sts = 138 on 2.5 mm.
Found buttons!

November 6 - 2013
Frogged the sleeve.
I will do it differently now as per Jenny’s idea; work both sleeves at the same time with bigger needles, in-the-round, BUT with steek sts in between for cutting them open. Thus the circumference will be larger/easier and both sleeves will be done with simultaneously. Oh and I quite like the lace edging for the body, I’d like that for my sleeves as well.
The way I will be making the sleeves now will result in shorter sleeves (which I love, but not for this cardigan), but I figured I can always add ribbing afterwards.
For the button band, I will cover the steeked sts with some nice ribbon. I may order buttons-to-embroider from Sajou.

October 27 - 2013
I refuse to create extra rows for this sleeve. This means I will have to FROG the sleeve, because the sleeve I already almost finished was an exact fit. I still can not believe it. Is this cardigan cursed?

October 8 - 2013
Still working on the sleeve chart.

October 07 - 2013
When I use the sleeve chart, the sleeve will be too SHORT, I can not believe it, because my arms are not that long at all. Although I very much like somewhat shorter sleeves, this is not OK. This means I need to add an extra repeat, I must make a chart. Huh…

August 26 - 2013
Sleeves in progress. Using 2.5 mm, 2.75 and 3.00 mm towards the sleeve cap.

June 14 - 2013
Starting with the sleeves.

June 9 - 2013
Body finished.

June 5 - 2013
Must first learn how to do the fair isle weaving on the wrong side. Here’s a good video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWHr3PH0RHg.
Sleeve caps will be steeked as well.

June 4 - 2013
Casting off front steek stitches; shoulder part = back & forth.

May 29 - 2013
Enlarged the yoke and upper body charts. Added contrast in photoshop. Cut the pattern into several slices to distinguish the central and outer parts. I don’t know what is in the written pattern (must read first), but I will steek as much as possible, including the sleeve openings.

May 16 - 2013
I cut off the body (equivalent of more than a week’s knitting hah). In the images, it may seem like there is enough contrast between the green and brown, but both strands are simply too variegated. I started anew with the same dark green, but found a much lighter brown skein or two.
It was either doing embroidery around all curls (would have done that but the result would have been too ‘wild’ for my taste) OR cutting all of and start again :)) On May 25 I was past the point where I already was. Still glad I cut the non-contrasty bit off.

May 8 - 2013
Started the body section again, using FairIsle technique, weaving every single stitch.
Not so sure about the contrast between the two main colours haha hmmm. Maybe better after embroidery.

August 26 - 2012
Completed the edging with bamboo needle in 2.5 mm, giving me 27 sts per 10 cm. Staying with this needle, and size M in the pattern, will result in my size Small.

August 2012
The charts in the Norsk Strikkedesign book are small. Solved this by photographing and then printing (plus some photoshop for extra contrast, plus I erased the large size for less confusion). Later I laminated them too.