I fell in love with this cardigan the first time I saw it on Sigrid's blog. I knew I wanted to knit one but the pattern was not published yet so I contacted her for a test knit and, hooray, she shared the draft pattern with me.
The actual knitting process was quite straight forward: after I managed to find the right needle size for my stash of red and white Latvian yarn (and one failed attempt to do so) I just followed the pattern which is very detailed and well written. The basic chart is repeated many times so I knew it by heart pretty quickly and could take it everywhere to progress faster on my knitting.
The only thing I changed was the construction of the sleeves. Sigrid suggests picking up stitches around the armholes of the bodice and knitting the sleeves top-down but I had a bad experience with this method on my "Spencer" cardigan. It's difficult to knit in the round because you have to keep turning the knitting, including the bodice which is quite bulky at that stage, so it gets annoying.
Instead I reversed the instructions and started at the cuffs, knitting my way up to the shoulders and sewing the sleeves tot he bodice instead. Works just as well, except that my sleeves turned out a tiny bit short in the end (but that's my fault and can be fixed easily). It's also a bit tight but that is a result of me messing up the gauge I think and I still like it a lot.
My verdict: I love my "petit poisson rouge" (little gold fish) and it does not take as long to knit as it looks like!
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