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Monami Cardigan
A smooshy, cably cardigan pattern from the Family Trunk Project - now available on Ravelry or over here.
Monami is the result of a thought experiment: an original design inspired by one of my favorite sweaters, Kim Hargreaves’s Breeze. I wanted to celebrate the role of inspiration in clothing design, since it’s an integral and valid part of the process that often gets dismissed as “copying.”
I didn’t consult Hargreaves’s pattern at any point during the design process, and my choices of yarn base, colorway, and cable motifs steered the final sweater in a markedly different direction from its original inspiration. More rustic and textural than its predecessor, Monami nonetheless owes a debt of gratitude to all the things I love about Breeze.
Other people who influenced the way this sweater turned out:
- knittermonkey Erin at Eat.Sleep.Knit helped me pick out the yarn;
- FoxInSocks Jodi at Green Ray Productions assisted with picking out the buttons;
- The famous Barbara Walker (and her contributors) gave me a starting-point for the cable motifs;
- Blog-reader platypus Natalie suggested the name, and introduced me to the awesome concept of monami waves.
You can read more in-depth about the design process over here.
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