Weekender Light

A box is on the way to Lynda with a new project. She is going to make The Weekender Light.

 📷 © Andrea Mowry

The Weekender, originally designed for worsted weight yarn and released a few years ago, is my most popular pattern to date and it may not surprise you that a lighter weight version has been the most frequent request in my inbox! While these 2 patterns are very similar, The Weekender Light has been adjusted for its very different gauge and with a larger range of size options! The Weekender Light is available in 10 sizes, is knit up in fingering weight yarn and has a few adjustments that I hope will result in another favorite sweater for your handknit wardrobe!

DETAILS 
This sweater is knit from the bottom up in the round until the yoke. The yoke is knit flat and then joined at the shoulders with a 3 needle bind off. Sleeves are picked up and knit down from the body for a completely seamless sweater!

You can purchase the pattern on Andrea’s website.

Lynn lives in her Weekender sweater and we thought it was a good time to have the fingering weight version in the store. What are we using? Le Cashmere & Lambswool in Very Light Pink. 

the biches & bûches cashmere & lambswool : take our le petit lambswool, and add even more softness and warmth that is called cashmere and you get this squishy delight of a blending. all our colors have a degree of tweed in them, giving always a touch of variation and sometimes even small exciting speckles!

le cashmere & lambswool is the same weight as our petit lambswool so all patterns using le petit lambswool can be used with this yarn quality.

the yarn is pure and natural
87.5% lambswool & 12.5% cashmere

our Le Cashmere & Lambswool is woolen spun.

50g - 248meters / 270yards – fingering weight.

You can use Le Petit Lambswool as well.

Susan finished her Velvet Mirror Cowl and it is beautiful. She used Biches & Buches Le Petit Silk & Mohair in Blue Grey and Dyed in the Wool in Cold Comfort. Susan started with a dark colour of Dyed in the Wool but didn’t like how it was working. I think the Cold Comfort was a perfect choice.

I finally finished my cowl. I was putting it off for weeks since I didn’t want to do the Kitchener stitch closing.  But it wasn’t that difficult once you get into the swing of it. 
I love the light soft light colours. I think I could wear this well into the spring season. 
Thanks for helping me pick the colours. 

You can purchase the pattern for the Velvet Mirror Cowl on Andrea Mowry’s website.

If I were to pick my favorite cowl style, it is definitely the Moebius cowl. It is perfect for colorwork projects because the floats are hidden inside, and it is so easy to style. Just pop it on to finish any outfit!

Thank you for sharing Susan. Now I need to block mine and sew it together. It’s been sitting on the front table in the store for way too long.

This is Boscoe’s chair - Jackson curled himself into it this afternoon. He won’t fit much longer.