To finish off the 500g cone of the yarn and because I haven’t really done a proper cosy cardigan yet, I set out while the ideas I had toyed with for the jumper were still fresh in my mind.

Like the jumper, I absolutely wanted to have the Estonian star flower row as the shoulder saddle. To have the flowers point the right way for the body where I used the star flower pattern in a more structured way than on the jumper with just a few floating down to the ground, I started top-down until separating body and sleeves and then worked the body bottom-up and joined both parts with the Kitchener stitch, which I am really getting quite good at .

For the sleeves, I again used the marked increases across them from the increasing star flower underarm ‘seam’ for the diagonal lines in order to pick up with the same pattern on the top of the sleeves where those two lines meet.

I think I have found a pretty good way of offsetting the skew in the fabric by getting back to a straight round by way of German short rows starting at 2 stitches either side from the top of the sleeve, followed by two stitches from the last pick up and knit together and then turn all the way to the underarm seam.

This yielded the most even result, definitely better than on the jumper where I had already tried to use short rows to even out the kinks in the sleeves but not quite as successfully.

I hope with this I have put my little star flower obsession to bed for a while.