I finished this project the night before NYE.

At the beginning of last year I bought two cashmere cardigans to wear while overseas – one purple, one red. I took the purple cardy overseas. It served it’s purpose as a layering garment. But while I love the colour of both cardys, they’re rather boring. I’ve always intended to embellish them.

For the purple one I wanted to do some embroidery, but every time I put needle and thread to it the result was disappointing, or the method was too slow or hard on my hands. Eventually I tried chain stitch with thin grey weaving yarn and liked it.

For the red one I want to do black roses. I bought gauzy ribbon sewn into roses, black velvet ribbon and other trim, and pinned it to the cardy on the dress model, but didn’t find a design I liked. Now I know chain stitch works well, I think I’ll use it and black wool yarn instead.