09-02-2016

Body is done. About 13 inches from underarm, then 1.5” of twisted rib. Thinking about the sleeves…

24-02-2016

Done. Lots of mods. One sleeve has a short row wedge of the Hedgehog, and the other transitions to the Hedgehog, which I suppose is obvious in the pics. Mostly decreased as per pattern, but fudged it toward the end because my sleeves are longer. Ended up with 60 sts at the bottom of the sleeves, and worked 12 rows of twisted rib. One sleeve is a little bit shorter than the other, I think because the Hedgehog did not block to exactly the same dimensions as the SG. Going to wear it today to see how much it bugs me, and if it’s annoying I’ll rip back and knit a tiny bit longer.

I really like this sweater. It’s weird, and not at all what I intended when I originally bought this pattern. Only took me so long because I knit a bunch of stuff in between. I cast on shortly after hearing of David Bowie’s death, and was inspired to knit something that reminded me of him a bit. The zigzag is a nod to Aladdin Sane, and the sweater is named after a lyric from “Ashes to Ashes”, in case you have read all these notes and were wondering :)