Thought I’d share this one as my first post here because it makes me smile every time.

The pattern is Lorelei Cardigan by Deni Sharpe who is one of my favourite crochet designers, her stuff is always fairly simple to make and just looks good.

So I’d made my own mustard yellow version of this and worn it basically every day for a whole year (you can probably see it’s a bit worse for wear in this photo, and believe me I’ve worn it a LOT more since!) and my grandma was very taken with it. Her favourite colour is blindingly bright red, so it was obvious what I had to do.

Most of the red one was made while doing a day-long marathon of the LotR extended editions, and my wrists were sore the next day. But the whole thing worked up pretty quickly and I reckon I managed to get her pockets attached much more securely than I ever did mine, so that’s a win!

Needless to say, she loved it. Major granddaughter points right there.

  • Merrymithril
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    1 year ago

    Those look great! I’ve just checked out the Deni Sharpe patterns on Ravelry and my project list is significantly longer now. She does great designs!

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      She really does, and they’re always straightforward and well written!

      I’ve also made her Lailah Swoncho, which is a bit more ridiculous especially in the yarn I used but is awaiting tassels before I post it here, and a pocket shawl I can’t remember the exact same of it but it’s cozy af (I also need to finish the tassels on that, tassels are my nemesis 😅).

      Made a jumper of some sort too but I messed up and over-blocked it and the less said about that the better. Wasn’t the designers fault, though, just me being a divvy!