Finally the Beijing Curry is here

So the camera is rediscovered, the cabel is found again and the sweater is in use.

• Pattern : What's to say, it's the fabulouse February Lady Sweater by Pam at Flint Knits.
  
• Yarn : Curry coloured Chinese mix. There is wool in it and some acryllic stuff.
• Needles : 4.5 mm/US 7 - 60 cm circs for the body and dpn's for the sleeves.
  
• Size : Knit in XS but on larger needles.
• Weight : 386 g - from stash.
  
• Buttons : 5 - 3 large and 2 smaller for the cuffs but all in same design.
  
• Started : November 2008
• Finished : January 2009 - February if sewing on buttons count...
• Mods : I made the sleeves a bit different - they have cuffs with buttons now.
  
• For : Me me me - to keep me warm in the freezing cold of Winter.

I found the patter the very day it was uplaoded and I immediately knew that I wanted to knit this cardigan. From then it's just been a matter of falling over some yarn. This happened in Beijing walking with a friend in a Hutong in October, where a lady was selling huge hanks of yarn for nothing. I grabbed 5 large 250 g skeins - two curry, two beige and one black. (Each skein was 10 yuan - 1.5 US$ or 1 £.) And I knew that the curry was meant for this.

It took me a while to get started, but when I got the curry on the needles only one thing stopped me finishing it - a very tangled second skein. After getting over myself and untangeling the mess, it took only a night to finish the slevees. Aaaand then another 3 weeks to find some buttons that I like and sew them on. But here it is, and I think it is a hit.

Even though I knit the smallest pattern and was pretty close to gauge, the Curry is quite big. But it's comfortable and warm and I really like it. And next time (for there will be a next time) I'll do it in thinner and softer yarn - possibly variated in colour, I think. There are a few things I would do different, if I did it all over: I would make the sleeves narrower and most likely cast on fewer stitches to begin with, to get a higher neckline. But I am satisfied with my Curry and my knitting mojo is still on a roll...