Fluffy First, My First Knitted Sweater: Nu by Vedis Jonsdottir
The reason I am slightly out of focus above is that I was jumping up and down as I was so excited that my first knitted sweater actually fit. I thought it would, but holding it up to your chest and thinking it will probably fit, and pulling it over your head and finding out it truly does fit, are two different things. I added the rib stitching at the bottom of the sweater and, as you can see, it is a little goofy looking there, but the collar got much better.
It is an easy first sweater, done in the round on very large circular needles, so only a knit stitch and some easy increases as you go until the collar when you must do rib stitches. It goes relatively quickly if you are a new knitter. You must use either short circulars or double-ended needles for the sleeves. I did the latter and sometimes they went sliding out. Oops. I must admit one sleeve got started several times as I forgot to do my increases. Oops.
I recommend binding off the underarm stitches. I bound off one side, and left live stitches on a piece of yarn on the other side as the pattern called for, to see which worked better. The bound off side remained far more stable in shape and easier to sew together when all was done.
This was made in Biggo yarn from KnitPicks.com. On the one hand, it is super soft and pettable, if that is a word. On the other, it is definitely pilling. Sigh. This is the simplest pattern in the book, but I am looking forward to trying more of them.
You can find the yarn here: https://www.knitpicks.com/yarns/Biggo_Yarn__D5420217.html
And the book here: https://www.knitpicks.com/Books/Knitting_with_Icelandic_Wool__D32057.html
