the slouchy cardigan
Tuesday, January 15, 2019If you have been here for a while, you know Greetings from Knit Cafe is truly one of my favorite books. It was published in 2006 and I still love it as much now as I did then. I'm not exactly sure how I ever heard of it, or how I received it. Did I buy it from my local yarn shop? Did my mom give it to me? I wish I could remember. But, what I do remember is that it's pages were turned by my hands so often that they are worn and remind me of this time. My kids were young. I knit every single night from 8pm-11pm. I'm not kidding. At one point I wanted to challenge myself to make everything in this book!
The author of the book is Suzan Mischer. Suzan was a former CBS vice president and the owner of Knit Cafe, a sleek yet homey neighborhood yarn store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Oh, how I wish I had gone there. (It's doors are closed.) The book is a result of the shop and includes 30 patterns ranging from hiking socks to a bikini. There are baby items, pillows, bags and my number one favorite the Slouchy Cardigan. I made three of them and documented two here and here. The cardigan has a hood but I omitted it in two of them and love them just the same. They are still my most favorite, wearable sweaters in my wardrobe.
(I have a hardcover but it looks like you can get a hard or soft cover here or here.)
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