Week 44 of 2026

This week I finished knitting a cardigan -

The pattern is the TANi cardigan by ANKESTRiCK.

I knitted it with handspun yarn that started as this bundle of fibre. 

Some natural wool (white and brown) from local fleeces I was given years ago (I washed and combed it), that I drum carded with beige cashmere, white Angora, a bit of green sparkle (trying to use up my fibre stash), and cut up scraps of handspun (for flecks of colour).

I ended up with these batts (the ones on the left had the scraps of yarn, and the batts on the right had the sparkle, for a two ply yarn with different add-ins in each ply),

and spun them in to this yarn - about 400g/750m of sport weight yarn.

I am so happy with how the cardigan turned out. The pattern has really nice details.

More details can be found on my Ravelry project page.

The new chickens are settling in OK, still very skittish, but I think they will always be since we didn't raise them from day old chicks like the other hens.

All the best!♥︎