Next Project - Kainana

I have spent a few days doing a major sorting of my yarn stash. There are so many tempting colours, but they never seem to be the correct ply for patterns I would currently like to try. I have such a large stash now that I am determined not to buy new yarn and use some of my stash up. I really enjoy short row knitting and with that in mind I have chosen a cardigan by Heidrun Liegmann called Kainana  .

I never know how a new pattern is going to work out size wise until I have knitted it once and with that in mind I am doing a practice run using some 4ply yarn in a pink variegated colour. I have the same yarn in variagated blue which I will probably use on the short row edging.

I am not fond of knitting on circular needles but there is no option for this garment and so I began as instructed using four double ended needles:-

After I had completed the rather pretty central star section I was able to move onto an actual circular needle to continue the rest of the back:-