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The Latest Sweater Saga

Posted on | February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

For the past three months or so, I’ve been working on a new sweater in Fleece Artist Woolie Silk 3ply (which will be apart of the collection) and I am very happy with the way it has turned out, but there’s certainly been a few bumps along the way.  It’s always easy to shy away from “the deep dark secrets” (ok, maybe that’s a little dramatic) behind a design and just tell the happy story at the end.  The end when everything has been written up, edited and gone through with a fine tooth comb – the cleaned up final pattern.

Well this sweater seems to have a little, shall we say, attitude.  That’s Attitude with a capital A.

It was innocent enough in the beginning.  It went from a high rib start to a normal 2″ one.  From a sweater knit in pieces to knit in one piece up to the set in sleeves.  From set in sleeves to a raglan.  And finally to a sweater in one piece.  The stitch pattern is a little particular, although very easy to knit, and needed a just little extra design attention apparently. Usually I can predict how something will work on paper before one stitch is every knit, but every once in awhile my best laid plans just don’t turn out that way.

So the ripping was over and I thought I had a finished sweater. I blocked it and hit it with the hairdryer once or twice to help it dry a little quicker.  Finally a few weekends ago  I was sewing up the one seam it has and tried it on.  It was cute, oh so very cute, but the muscle was just a tinge too small.  Not enough to look funny, but just enough that I’d knew I’d be fussing with it whenever I wear it.

So now comes the hard part. I had to rip. I had to rip out everything but the body.

While it was a little painful, I survived. It was re-knit over the Holidays, it fits much better and I’m much happier. It’s probably one of my favorite designs to date and I predict it getting plenty of use.  The finished product will be a part of neoknits volume one, most likely the 5th pattern  to be published in the collection. I hope it will be worth the wait! And lucky for you, I’ve already worked out all the kinks!

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