“All grown-ups were once children...”

“…but only few of them remember it.” 

I wanted to finish knitting a cardigan for my friend’s goddaughter before I moved out of London. I therefore knitted like mad for a week or two, and managed to complete this little number:

It uses Paint box Yarn Simply Aran in 7 shades:

• Champagne White (202), 
• Blood Orange (219), 
• Buttercup Yellow (222), 
• Lime Green (228), 
• Kingfisher Blue (234), 
• Lipstick Pink (251), 
• and Pillar Red (214) (I assume they mean Pillar Box). 

I love the colours, I think they are so cheerful and bright – perfect for a child’s jumper! So perfect in fact that I bought enough wool to make two of these jumpers, one for my friend and one for my niece.

The pattern is also by Paintbox Yarns and is simply called Rainbow Cardigan (Love Knitting link here). I know my sister will love it for her daughter. I have a sneaking suspicion, in fact, that she will love it so much she might “jokingly” ask if I can make one big enough for her. And I probably could, but after making two of these I doubt I’ll want to embark on a third for a little while!

The pattern is relatively simple, but does get a bit confusing when knitting the neckband on each piece. There are also a lot of ends to weave in owing to the colour work:

I made a silly mistake when I knitted the first section, the back. I miscounted the number of lines left – actually I didn’t miscount the lines, I did something sillier. I miscounted how many colours I had. Actually I don’t know what I did. All I know if I thought I had 39 lines and thought 6 rows of each colour would work out. Which it obviously doesn’t – so now I have an extra row of white around the top:

Which I think looks quite nice (far better than an extra-long red section) but let’s just say I won’t be repeating it on the next cardigan.

One thing I learned when sewing it all together was that you really should begin with the raglan sleeves, otherwise it's very confusing! Plus even when you're sick to death of a project and just want it to be finished, it's worth it to do all the finishing touches. CB had to convince me to include the edging along the two front edges but it looks so much neater with them. Sigh...I hate it when he's right! 

*Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry