Knitting the Hautau Cardigan

Hi friends, this week's project has been in the works for a little over a month now! I am not the speediest knitter by anyone's estimation, I mostly just like to keep my hands busy in the evening while my husband and I are watching something or rather while he watches something and I have an audiobook book plugged into one ear. 

I ordered this yarn on ebay last year sometime I believe. It was originally from France and I had to do a little bit of google translate to try and estimate the gauge/yarn weight/amount in yards. For those of you unfamiliar to knitting: gauge is a sample swatch you make before you start the project to make sure your size will match up with the designers. I used to skip this and most of my knits just never fit correctly and it sucked. Yarn weight refers to the thickness: thinner yarns need a smaller needle size and will get you a lighter fabric, thicker yarn needs larger needles and heavier fabric. And the meters/yards difference is because I am unfortunately not used to the metric system being American. My pattern in this case had both thankfully though.

The pattern I used was the Hautau Pattern by Francoise Danoy which is a free pattern available on Ravelry. Ravelry is a free site for those who crochet and/or knit with both paid and free patterns. It's a wonderful resource with a huge pattern database including a lot of vintage patterns.  The pattern was straightforward and easy to follow. I had no problems with mine, even though I have a few years of knitting experience, I found it interesting and engaging. The only major change I made to this pattern was to add sleeves instead of keeping it short sleeved. 

I have a whole page on my project if you're more into the details of knitting available here if you'd like to check it out. This blog isn't sponsored by Ravelry or Francoise Danoy, I just really enjoyed this knit and thought it was too cute not to share with you friends! If you are still fairly new to knitting but ready to try a few different skills, I would highly recommend this pattern. 

I'm hoping the weather continues to cool down so I can wear this more, and I cannot wait to pair this with my Outlander skirt that I refit last month! I don't think there is a limit on too much green wool for one outfit right? Until next time friends, it's back to the sewing room.