Midsommar Cardigan Pattern

Midsommar Cardigan – Fingering Midsommar is an all-over colorwork pullover that celebrates the height of summer. I’ve always loved flowers. When we were newlyweds just starting out in life, I had a very small budget set aside for fresh flowers. Summer gardens are something that I carry with me year-round. There’s a sense of longing and remembering, looking back, and looking forward. Summer gardens carry with them the hope of a new season, with a nod to the past. Often in January, although I love winter, I find myself thumbing through seed catalogs and dreaming of planting our garden the next spring. Designing this sweater reminded me of that exercise. I began working on the design in the late spring by sketching and playing with floral motifs, then knit the prototype into early summer, then wrote the pattern at the height of blackberry season. I love how, once summer is upon us, with all its bounty, our thoughts turn to winter and ways to preserve the summer harvest, so that we can eat