Completed: a nice green sweater
hopefully it will fit!
I finished knitting all the pieces of my nice green sweater a couple months ago, I think in the beginning of August. I only had a couple safety pins, so I wasn't able to sew it all together, and then I was wisked away to the opposite side of the country for a couple trips (see my knitting projects between August and now). BUT I was a good girl and actually blocked all the pieces, so that once I had some time and some patience, I could finish the sweater. Goodness knows I hate to finish knitting projects. Sewing together all those pieces... weaving in all those ends... oh and buttons... sewing over a dozen buttons isn't the most fun you can have on a Saturday night. But hey, you only live once, right?
So... here it is, my nice green sweater:
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- the pattern:
- Cabled Nursing Sweater from Natural Knits for Babies and Moms by Louisa Harding
- the materials:
- 5 balls Cascade Yarn's 220 Superwash wool, Color 891
- 14 5/8" buttons
- tapestry needle and thread
- the modifications:
- Because the yarn I chose has a smaller guage than the one used in the pattern, I actually had to knit the "large" pattern in order to get one that measures the size of the "small" (here's the calculations I made earlier to make sure I made the right size swater. And to my pleasant suprise, the finished sweater measures just as I expected. I just hope it will fit come this winter.