Leavings is a tailored Ziggurat cropped cardigan (or jacket) with built-in buttonbands and finished with a sweet garland on hem and cuffs.
The woolly or, hairy even, yarn is knitted on a smaller needle than I would normally use for DK – I wanted a firmer fabric.
The lined hem is not double-knitted but the two layers are nevertheless worked together, one row at a time in order to fashion a beautiful edge next to the buttonband.
You will find a photo tutorial for this hem – and other useful hems – in the generous tutorial section of the book.
- Ziggurat: everything is knitted in one go, top to bottom
- no seaming
- built-in buttonbands
- no finishing work – bind off and you are done (as in done-done) As usual, there’s the Helpful Table to keep track of increases from shoulder to underarm cast-on.
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