Inspired pink

 Ever since about ten years ago, I knitted my "Inspired" sweater, I designed for myself, with corrugated ribbing (BTW, I still wear that sweater), I wanted to make it from 1) different color 2) in a cardigan version. 

Realizing the idea after so long was a sudden decision, when I picked this bunch of yarn up in a second hand place, and there was that reddish colored not full ball.

I always thought that "want to make it from other color" meant something with red, and digging up some sand/beige colored sock yarn seemed a good idea. 

Little did I know, that the yarn that looked definetly red (with a bit of pink here and there) would look decidedly pinkish knitted with the beige.

Oh well, I thought, I am old enough to wear pink, so I continued to knit. And knit and knit and finish :-)

It is the same top down, funnel-neck (wider then a regular high-neck), round-yoke construction as the old sweater was.

However, since I had VERY limited amount of the colored yarn (especially, because there was an unreasonably long very light pink piece that I had to cut out to keep the balance), I had to be creative with the cuff and, the edge at the waist and the button-band as I just did not had enough to do those with the full, long corrugated ribbing

I like the final result, where the color does pop up in the edges, even if only small bits of it.

The buttons are old buttons, I brought back from Miami with me in the late nineties (and even in Miami they were a flea-market/garage sale buy, so they might even be older than that), but the reddish-pinkish shade was perfect for now. 

Pattern: No pattern, I just made it up as I went.

Yarn: DROPS Fabel, beige, the reddish did not have a band.

Needles: Knit Pro ZING circulars and DPN's (for the sleeves), 2,5 mm, 3 mm and 3,5 mm.

Photos: Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto