In 2022 I designed Lady Cordelia for the PEI Fibre Festival. My original vision for this design was this Colorful Cordelia. I was traveling when I designed this cardigan, and had to have the yarn arrive at my house by the time I got home so that I could knit the cardigan in a week and get on a plane to teach at the PEI Fibre Festival. I didn’t have time to get the colors just right, so I ended up knitting Lady Cordelia with two colors. I picked green and white as as a love letter to Green Gables, and I loved it, but the original vision still haunted by dreams. So here we are, four years later, and I decided to knit the Lady Cordelia of my dreams. Because I was knitting from my dreams, it took some yarn creativity to get the colors just right. I started with Isager Jensen for the main color along with the perfect green mustard, and then by trial and error I ended up with making a 3-ply yarn with Isager Spinni for the red, and a 2-ply yarn by using Isager Tweed together with Isager Alpaca 1. Every color ended up being the same weight and the color combo is just what I had envisioned in my head. I hope you love it as much as I do and that it becomes a beloved piece in your wardrobe.
This pattern is similar to the original Lady Cordelia, but it is updated with my latest favorite techniques. I knit this Colorful Lady Cordelia with three colors at once, but if that is a lot for you, it works beautifully to knit with two colors, substituting the third accent color with the MC and adding the third color with a series of duplicate stitches. I did that in the test knit and you can’t tell the difference, so knit in the way that is most fun for you!
