Colors too close together for stranded colorwork/ Furniture City. I need to remember to check that before I buy the yarn. (This is easy! Take the yarn, pull into any photo program and switch to black and white. If they look the same, they probably won’t work well together in stranded colorwork. See this Knitty article for more info.)

Using shawl collar from Hathaway in a fairly simple CustomFit sweater. Contrast hem/ribbing details.

Swatch, US9 ChiaoGoo Lace
pre-block: 17.78 x 24.28 = 4”
post-block: 17.45 x 25.38 = 4”

Design choices:
-Hourglass close fit
-Pullover
-Low-hip length
-Full-length sleeve
-Scoop neck, modifying with info from Hathaway
-Hem edging: 2x2 Ribbing, 5”
-Sleeve edging: 2x2 Ribbing, 8”
-Neck edging: from Hathaway

Tillybuddy’s very stretchy cast-on for front and back.

Tubular cast-on for sleeves

Tubular cast-off for cowl neck
The tubular cast-off draws the collar in too much and makes the sweater pull funny. Planning to rip it out and re-bind-off, not sure which one yet…
(For those following along, this is take 3 on the bind-off, I played yarn chicken and lost 10 stitches short the first time!)

Went with JSSBO for collar. Very happy with the results, even though you can’t tell the difference in the pictures.
(in mirror = tubular; outside = JSSBO)

I’m right here so don’t get blue
It’s not just you, I need this too

All I can think about is you
And me driving with the Saves the Day record on
We were singing ‘til our voices were gone
And I was falling hard
You were barely hanging on
And now I wanna chase forever down
With you around

Yellowcard, “With You Around”