I'm knitting a cardigan - it was a cardigan when I bought it. It's a multicoloured chenille type yarn and it looked to me a bit like my mother's rockery in summer, all pinky mauvy rock roses, and various greens of foliage. I wore it once and decided it needed a welt knitted on the bottom and the cuffs, and while I was looking at it and thinking what colour would work, I noticed that the previous knitter had not worked with alternating balls, so there was a great solid lump of pink over the left front. So I unpicked it to start from scratch. I went around all the knitting shops I could to try and find it so I could get a spare ball, but could not identify it, until I did a search for knitting yarns on the web. Eventually, after much examination of tiny little thumbnails, I tracked it down to a firm in Wales, who dye hanks to order, and got my extra one for emergencies. (Colinette Isis in Dusk) I'm just going down the sleeves now, but might have to redo them - the shaping isn't working well.
The previous owner had stitched it together with huge stitches in embroidery cotton, but I've knitted it on circular needles and picked up stitches for the sleeves after grafting the shoulders, so there's no actual sewing at all. I try to do all my knitting that way now, having found it to be traditional - it means that any of my tension fluctuations match around the garment so I don't get the left front different from the right.

Penny