I'm very pleased with it, it fits right! I was so scared that it'll be too small.
I'm totally in love with the yarn, it's so soft and I still can't get over the colour, perfect for me. Subdued, but with a bit of life to it (this is about as much colour as I can wear, my clothes are strictly black, gray, white, taupe and blue only as jeans, beige very occasionaly...I'm hopeless.)
Such a neat little thing it is, perfect for autumn layering.
Yarn : handspun, heavy fingering, I blended two colours, off pink with dark brown at the yoke
I think she likes it!
Then I started machine stitching just half a stitch from the marked line. Sewing machine is set to loose tension and short stitch. You can do a crocheted steek, but I wasn't using particulary 'grabby' yarn and I was afraid that everything would become undone, so I went for a safe option.
I sewed down both sides of the line, the stitching is almost invisible from the right side
but it can be clearly seen on the purl side. (I have a wonky machine so I have few extra loops of sewing thread there...)
So, that's done, onto cutting... Cut precisely between the two 'halves' of a marked stitch.
The dreaded first cut, but aaahh it's not unraveling.
and here we go, steek done! It wasn't half as bad as I've expected.
A close up of the cut edge. Pretty neat.
Then I went ahead and started picking up stitches for the neck border.
The finished cardigan. 
Have you ever tried steeking? How it went?
I’m using my silk/merino singles yarn. I’m making size S and the whole thing is made out of little over 3 skeins of yarn. It’s a quick knit too, on 5mm needles the fabric grows rapidly.
I’m trying to keep it simple, so it has stockinete body with garter stitch trims, the only ‘fancy’ touch is an i-cord bind of, which gives it nice finish.
I’ll have pics of the finished item soon, I hope I’ll finish today… Maybe I’ll release a pattern? Will see how it goes…
