CATHERINE oversized long cable knit alpaca cardigan - dusty rose

CATHERINE – a long cable knit cardigan you can wear instead of a coat

CATHERINE is a long, warm chunky cable knit cardigan in dusty rose, worn open – there is no fastening. It is 90 cm long, and at 136 cm around it wraps right across the body. It works as a knitted coat too: through autumn it is warm enough to leave the house in on its own.

Wide, deep braids run the full length of each front – big cables, not a fine repeat. The sleeves are left uncabled and knitted generously wide, finishing in a deep cuff. The back is worked in garter stitch.

The yarn is thick and the knit is left lofty rather than packed tight, so the piece has real volume without the weight that usually comes with it.

It is one women's size. The body measures 136 cm around and gives about 10 cm more in length once it is on, so it works across a wide range – it is meant to hang loose rather than follow the figure.

The yarn is built around alpaca and merino. The full breakdown is below.

Every panel of this piece is knitted to shape on its own – fully-fashioned, never cut out of a length of knitted fabric. The panels are then hand-linked: a person feeds the open stitches onto the linking machine one loop at a time, so the seams stretch with the knit.

It is hand-finished – hand-steamed over a shaped pad and washed before it leaves the workshop, so it arrives at its true size and stays there. The yarn is spun in Italy.

I design every piece myself, and it is knitted in a small workshop here in Lithuania – a few at a time, never off a production line.

Every piece passes through my hands before it is packed – I check each one myself before it goes out.

It arrives in a plain brown box with the care card inside and nothing else – no filler paper, no leaflets. That is a choice, not a saving – I would rather use less than print something that is made to be thrown away.

Dusty rose is the softest color of the four, which is why the cables stand out in it most.

Color – dusty rose.

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One size.
EU 36 (S), 38 (M), 40 (L), 42 (L).
US / CAN 6 (S), 8, 10, 12 (M), 14, 16 (L).

Composition:
30% alpaca wool, 30% merino wool, 10% lamb wool, 30% polyacrylic.

Measurements (garment not stretched)*:
Length – 90 cm / 35.43"; it stretches by about 10 cm when worn.
Circumference – 136 cm / 53.54".

*as with all knitted garments, the measurements may vary by a few centimeters.

CARE:
– hand wash;
– maximum washing temperature 30 °C;
– gently squeeze the excess water out of the washed garment, do not wring it;
– do not hang it wet on a hanger, as it will lose its shape;
– do not tumble dry;
– iron on the lowest setting with steam, or simply steam it.