Braided join and the Queen Anne Cardigan

I have learned a new technique: the braided join, and now I don’t know how I ever managed without it.

Cast on, the 2nd

After spending about 15 hours knitting through 3 entire balls of yarn, I began to suspect that I had a monster on my needles. The original pattern suggests 9 oz of 4-ply yarn, knitted on a no. 7 needle. I researched. Being from Germany, ounce is not a measure that easily translates to me, so