Knitting Diary: Comfort Fade Cardi

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Pattern: Comfort Fade Cardi by Andrea Mowry

Needle:   US 4 - 3.50mm
                US 5 - 3.75mm 
                US 6 - 4.00mm

Yarn:      Bakery Bears Yarn in After All This Time
                Lolodidit Yarn in The Breakfast Club
                Lolodidit Yarn in Cherry Blossom
                Little Skein in the Big Wool Yarn in Violet Vale (Kindred Spirits Yarn Club)
                Bakery Bears Yarn in Murder at the Vicarage
                Knit Picks Aloft in Plover

Paid or Free:      Paid

Started: May 1, 2020

Completed: July 27, 2021

Notes: Decided to take the plunge and join in the Grocery Girls Comfort Fade Cardi KAL as well as Happee Knit’s Cardigan KAL

Put together a fade from stash fingering yarn and added mohair to get gauge. I had to go down a needle size to get gauge. Went up a needle size for the sleeves.

End notes: I did about 3.75 inches of each solid section before fading in the next color. I did not fade the cuff of the sleeves.

For the collar, I used the colors in the opposite order as the body. Each short row section was decreased to 12 total rows, the first 3 rows as directed and then 9 repeats, to accommodate the 5 colors. The fade sections were shortened to 3 repeats (New, Current, New).

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