My Effortless Cardigan is ready for wear! This is the coziest sweater, and I absolutely love how the colors turned out. Eventually, I wouldn't mind purchasing more of the Swish Tonal yarn in a different colorway to make another bright, happy, cozy cardigan with. This is going to be the PERFECT piece for fall, and I'm ready for 90 degrees to go away so I can basically live in it for the rest of the year.

The pattern was so simple, and the absolute best part about it was the fact that there is ABSOLUTELY NO SEAMING. Every section was knitted into the next. You either reserved stitches on a stitch holder to join yarn to later or you picked up stitches along an edge. This was the perfect technique for me, because as I've mentioned before I tend to finish knitting the pieces for a garment and then let them sit on a shelf in a tote bag for months (or years) before I stop being lazy and seam them together. I HATE seaming. But the Effortless Cardigan had none of that.... it truly was EFFORTLESS. And fast - I highly recommend this pattern!

I will post later this week about my current projects. Knitting this time of year is so very enjoyable. Happy Fall!

Look at that photo and tell me you don't love that colorway. Green is my favorite color anyway, but to have so many glorious shades of it in one piece is pretty magical... or at least for me. The yarn is Knit Picks Swish Tonal in Canopy. I can already tell I'm going to love wearing this cardigan, so much that I might have to make another eventually.The Effortless Cardigan is just that: effortless. Completely. Since it's all knit in Stockinette stitch (with exception of the rib section at the bottom), it's a perfect mindless project for traveling or watching a movie. I decided to start on it so I would have something to work on during our vacation to the northwest, and it really helped pass the time on our flights and in the car, or just during downtime at the hotel/campsite when I was too tired to do anything else.

At this point I'm about to bind of the body section and then all I will have left is the sleeves! I can't believe how fast it's gone. I'll probably be able to share some photos of the finished product in the next week or two, and with the way the weather has been going recently I might be able to start wearing it (for real!) by then too! Thank you Mother Nature for giving us a 20 degree break from that horrendous summer weather.