Literally haven't taken it off since I finished it. I am so unbelievably pleased!!!! It turned out like a dream 🍓✨ details below:
Pattern: frost lines by andrea mowry
Yarn: mc: Brooklyn tweed (rip) loft // cc: spincycle dyed in the wool, strawbaby colorway
I used US5s and knit a size 5 due to gauge differences, since these yarns are technically fingering weight. It is a very light wearing sweater, weighs absolutely nothing on my shoulders.
I wanted to show off the yarn - and I was afraid of running out of the mc tan bc I can't get more of it - so I did the cuffs in the spincycle, as well as added a very cute behind the neck detail i am in LOVE with.
Otherwise, the only mod is I knit the buttonband thinner, and shifted the buttons to be between stripes rather than at stripes. Thought it looked better.
Overall, so very happy with it. It feels absurdly professional and so put together. Mowry's raglan chart was really fun to use and I kinda want another one XD
Pattern: throwback by andrea mowry. Note that she does have a pullover version of this sweater but since I owned the cardigan version, I adjusted that cardigan version with some help from other project's notes
Yarn, CC: ewe2yarn, mellow worsted, swirl mini pack
Needles: us7 for body, us8 for colorwork, us6 for cuffs
- as mentioned above, I own the cardigan version of this pattern and felt it better to adjust it from there. I learned a lot about customizing sweaters from this knit
-some adjustments: I knit a size 3 overall, but I split the sleeves at a number comparable to the largest size. When decreasing for the sleeves, I decreased 18sts within the first 10 rows, then followed the decrease pattern for the largest size - but aimed for the smallest size's stitch count.
- This is a pattern known for tight sleeves, so all my adjustments really helped. I definitely recommend shuffling the numbers around for your body shape.
- woolstok is an Incredible yarn, and I'm very lucky my LYS sells it in massive skeins given it's expense. I used one full skein and probably 2/3rds of the second one
- i was inspired by the chromatic aberration light gets for the colorwork!! [This video] really settled my vision. I really didn't want to split up the mini skein set, and I even added another skein of white to ensure I didn't run out. It did mean that I was knitting with all of them in the middle of the colorwork, but it is a fast knit once you get there. The colorwork probably took me two days
