{"product_id":"vintage-hand-knitted-fair-isle-baby-cardigan-cream-1980s-90s","title":"Smiling Buttons · 1980s Hand-Knitted Fair Isle Baby Cardigan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWool yarn · hand-knitted Fair Isle colourwork · cream ground · smiley-face buttons · handmade, no label · 1980s to 1990s · AU size 4-5, approx 4-5 years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCream wool banded with fine Fair Isle colourwork in red, pink, green, and blue, fastened up the front with smiley-face buttons. Fair Isle is one of the more technically demanding hand-knitting traditions: you carry multiple colours across each row, the unused threads running along the back, which means you are always managing several strands at once and must keep an even tension across all of them or the finished fabric pulls and distorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo label, 1980s to 1990s. To do Fair Isle well at the small scale of a child's cardigan takes a real knitter. This person was a real knitter: the colourwork is even and bright throughout, no distortion, no loose threads at the back. The smiley buttons are the detail that makes this completely loveable, a warm, funny choice that dates this happily to the late twentieth century and is impossible to resist. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA piece that will be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084112392326,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2723.jpg?v=1782129581","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/vintage-hand-knitted-fair-isle-baby-cardigan-cream-1980s-90s","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}