Circle Cardigan

This was a good 1-2 hour project for yesterday morning.  I've been getting up early everyday this vacation (okay, well that's an outright lie, I stayed in bed until 11am on Thanksgiving) so I could get done all the things that I dream of doing whilst sitting at my computer all day at work.  Saturday morning it was this little number:

1. I chose this seersucker-ish knit fabric that I bought last week, and then this light brown knit that I had lying around for the lining. 

2.  I folded it into quarters and, using chalk, drew a curve from outside-corner to outside-corner, then cut it on a curve to make it an almost-perfect circle.  The cutting was about two yards to begin with.

3. Then I took two measurements on myself: the distance from the top of my neck to my armhole.  I folded the top of the circle down about 6 inches since that'll be the collar, and then marked this measurement. Then I took the distance across my back from shoulder-to-shoulder, and marked that as well.  I cut the armholes about 8.5" high and 4.5" wide.

4. Then I threw it on the dressform to check the placement, noted the terrible light and quality of this photograph, and then got back to work.

5. I laid out the lining and mirrored the cuttings.  I also used extra navy fabric to make collar facing and some simple flat sleeves. I surged all the edges and clean-finished the collar.

6. I would say "ta-da!" if these pictures didn't come out so hellishly awful.  But here's the cardigan. 

7. Then I told my self, "Cat, go find the real camera and stop using your iPhone."