Cropped Cardigan

Yeah... finally! Remember the February Sneakpeak? I managed to finish a major project - a cropped cardigan; a modification of short sleeve jacket which (a free pattern) was found from Lion Brand. Ehmmm.... excuse me... although I don't intend to give promotion to any party whatsoever, I feel that I owe them a token of appreciation for a wonderful pattern and a forum called Crochet Along (CAL) to help you better understand the pattern and how to use it.


... can show off to my friends tomorrow ;-) .. buttons can come in later :D

I used just a strand of yarn (instead of two as instructed) for two major reasons:
1. I'm not living in a 4-seasons country and the weather is hot most of the time... and
2. It was hard to find suitable yarn like cotton (to match the weather) in my hometown
So, therefore I just use whatever is available and the result is roughly twice as much stitches needed compared to the original pattern. Hmm... so the amount of time taken to finish the project? Two years... from Dec 2009 to Feb 2010! Whoa!!!

Well... it's not exactly a solid 3 months lah... Come thinking of it, I just do it on and off, over the weekend... and sometimes a few '10-minutes' at night when I was restless... Too tired to go through my 'homework' (yeah.. yeah... I'm still at school, what...), yet part of my mind is still 'engaged' with things at school... The remedy? Toying with yarn, of course! And what do you know... a handful of yarns could slowly merged into something wonderful (ahak!!)... like my 'cropped' cardigan.