Abalone cardigan - the first knitted cloth

A few months ago I bought a beautiful, hand dyed yarn from Bucilla. If you want to get a Buci yarn, you have to be very fast. :) She uploads her new works to her blog, and if you in the right place at the right time, maybe you can get those.

So, I had a hand dyed Buci yarn, 100g, 700m. It's just enough to make my first cardigan. :) I've knitted just wraps, cowls, mittens and hats. Originally I didn't want to make clothes, because I need a lot of ball of yarns,  and I think, to knit for example a jumper is a little boring. :P If I still make clothes, they will have to be really special, which I can't buy in a shop.

The colours make my cardigan special. The yarn was very thin, I knitted with 3.5 needle, so finally I've got light, colorful, really springlike clothes. I would have never used the green color with purple and rose, but fortunately Buci have used. ;) The color of the cardigan recalls the colors of tourmaline gemstone. The tourmaline is one of my favourite stones, and the knitting was refreshing in the grey, cold and boring February.

Ravelry project page
Abalone Cardigan pattern