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2023's catvent pattern was the Cheery Colourwork Catty Carousel Catvent Catdigan.
It’s a fitted cardigan with a carousel (and cat) inspired yoke, plus some colourwork sparkles at the wrist and hem. I love those little colourwork flourishes at the end; they’re a reward for all that stocking stitch along the way and always get me off sleeve island that little bit faster.
The cardigan is steeked, but if you don’t want to steek there are instructions for making yourself a flat-knit version and for knitting a sweater. You’ll be able to choose whether you want a shaped or straight waist, and there’ll be all the usual help for tweaking the cardigan to fit you. And, of course, the usual wide spread of sizes.
This is a 4ply-knit cardigan. Watching the rainbow emerge, and the promise of some hem and cuff colourwork sparkles, will help the knitting just whizz by.
The kit contains;
- 25 mini-skeins or 5 full sized 100gr skeins. Each skein will be labelled and wrapped. The packaging will all be recyclable, and as minimal as I can make it while still keeping the yarn a secret and the unwrapping fun.
- 2 x 100gr contrast skeins - one in soft silver and one in a grey-black.
- the cardigan pattern, plus a second scrap-friendly pattern of your choice
- plus little crafty extras scattered throughout the calendar, including an extra-special extra for Christmas day.
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Yarns
4-ply wool - this is a springy, bouncy, sturdy wool with a bit of crunch and character.
4-ply merino bounce - this is a lovely soft and bouncy high-twist fine merino.
4-ply sleek merino (organic) - this is a smooth, sleek merino with a gentle shine.
The wool yarns are pictured in a little lineup. They're ordered, left to right, as;
- DK wool
- 4ply wool
- DK merino
- Bounce merino
- Sleek merino
Colours
This year we're going dark. The yarn will be a shimmering rainbow of deep, saturated jewel tones, haunted by spooks and ghouls, bats and little black cats, and crushed-velvet 90s-vampire-movie extras.
The yarn shown isn't the yarn that will be in the calendar - that would ruin the surprise. It's the last two years advent dyes.
Extras
Add on a project bag and enamel pin in a new-for-advent catty design, or go for the whole adventstravaganza, and get the stitchmarker calendar as well. This year's theme is A Spooky Catvent, so expect cats and bats, cobwebs, spooks, vampires, creepy woods and haunted houses.
If you add the stitchmarker calendar I'll be in touch nearer the time to check which style of markers you'd like.