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Cardi Obsessed

It's funny how things stay with you as a maker. Back in September we were walking around Winter Garden when I saw this boutique display window. The little color block crochet cardi caught my eye, mainly because it looked pretty simple. Given that it was simply granny stitch I also thought I could make one myself. At the time I was working my white and abalone V-stitched throw, so I filed away the pic and the idea.

I thought about that cardi in the window a month later when I finished a thrifted granny stitch ripple baby blanket that I thrifted.

And again while I was working on a granny stitch ripple throw of my own. I would have tried to make it, only I had two quilting projects waiting in the wings and I really needed to make them first.

Then my holiday bad luck struck and I badly sprained a finger, pretty much wiping out any chance of working on my two quilting projects for the next month.

I can still crochet, however.

I went on my paint program and worked up a simple color design. My version will be longer, as I'm not a fan of cropped jackets, and I'll have ribbing on mine because of the pattern I'm going to use. Depending on how much of any color yarn I have plus how the pattern works up I made add more color blocks.

Nevertheless, my version of the cardi in the shop window is now in the works. :)

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