having a great life in spite of everything

I have kind of a love/hate thing with shrugs. They’re small and generally fast and easy to knit, minimal shaping, should be everything I like in a knitting pattern. The fit though, well it’s hardly worth the ease and speed if I’m never going to wear it. They so often have that odd bracket, framing effect, where they draw just a little too much emphasis to the boobular area—hey, everybody, look at my boobs! Which is probably why I often think of them as a juniors-type of clothing item.

But that’s not fair, I like the concept of a cute, little bit of sweater. Not so much that it’s like a true cardigan with buttons and all, but with at least some hint of a front on it. So I call this the Cardi Shrug, it’s not really a cardigan, but not only sleeves like many shrugs. And I couldn’t really think of anything better or more accurate to call it.

I only wrote one size, because I’m being lazy, wanted to get it posted, and it’s really not that tough to resize. If you just wear it open as a shrug, I think it’ll fit a surprisingly wide range of sizes. My bust size is about 36, and it works fine for that, anyone smaller could wear it easily, and sizing it up a bit would be easy. But hey, if you want more sizes, say so and tell me what you need. I could expand the pattern if anyone wants, honestly I wasn’t sure what other sizes I should try for.