Coffee and Tea
Annelaine Coffee and Tea Cardigan
The Annelaine Cardigan pattern is known as the coffee and tea, but for my purposes I’m going to talk about the Tea and then the coffee LOL. (The dress is the Charleston by the way)
The Tea version of the cardigan is a fully banded round sort of shape. You might have heard the style referred to as cocoon cardigan too. The bands are sewn together into a circle and then you connect all the way around. It’s a really quick construction.
I also really like the shape because there’s not too much of the cardigan in the front to get in my way, but enough to provide a silhouette. This version is made from Painted Desert sweater knit available at Amelia Lane Designs.
This version of the tea cardigan is made with a striped sweater knit that came in my choose your own adventure sweater knit box from Amelia Lane Designs.
I’m wearing it over my Annelaine Tangerine Dress (blog post) in red liverpool from Amelia Lane Designs.
Before I was won over by the shape of the tea cardigan, I was a Coffee connoisseur. The coffee cardigan (they’re the same pattern so you don’t have to decide!) has a straight hem with no band instead of the band all the way around. It has either wide or narrow bands around the front and neck.
This is a flat lay of a Coffee cardigan cropped to the length I could get from 1 yard. I added pearl buttons to one side of the band. The dress is the 5oo4 Virginia.
I made myself a coffee cardigan in the standard pattern length using my leftover Camden Hacci fabric from Amelia Lane Designs after making myself the Annelaine Sawyer shirt.
I lengthened the coffee cardigan (and bands) by 8.5″ (one sheet of paper) to make this duster for my Charleston dress capsule. I used a super soft sweater knit from a cherries waffles Sincerely Rylee color palate box. My lengthening method is the same as when I made the Annelaine Carlisle sweater.
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Pattern Link: Annelaine Coffee and Tea Cardigan
