This is the first version of Ishav, and was knit before I knew I would make a pattern from it. I ended up collaborating with the original knitter of this specific variation of what turned out to be a pretty typical Peruvian pattern, and the result was the Ishav pattern.

Original notes:
A complete ripoff of a sweater I found on Instagram (with permission from the original knitter).

Update; It seems this is a ripoff of a ripoff; I found this blog post with what seems to be the first version of the pattern, which is itself copied from a 30 year old sweater from Peru. Though the version I copied had slightly different charts, it still looks very much the same. Funny how knitting travels.

Numbers are very loosely based on Ann Budd’s book. I decided how wide I wanted the neck opening, the sleeves and the body to be. Then I mixed and matched the different increase-rates to fit in between the different pattern components.

CO 100 stitches with provisional cast on, and knit shortrows and an icord bindoff in the end. The shortrows were knit on 3 mm needles and I knitted to 34-24-19-14 stitches from the center back).

When trying the sweater on the neck opening seemed too big for my preferences, but the icord-bind off is tight enough that when knit over a 100 stitches it just barely goes over my head.

Separated for sleeves when there was 5 rounds left of pattern. Decided to distribute complete pattern repeats for sleeves and body (f.ex sleeves are 5 whole pattern repeats).

The last rounds of pattern are knit in intarsia, because I couldn’t be bothered to carry the yarn over all the blue stitches. There was a lot of yarn to bind off, so in the end I probably didn’t save much time.

Didn’t do any decreases on the arms until the very end. Then I switched to white, rapidly decreased and finished with an icord-bindoff.

The amount of yarn left indicates that I used 230 gr of yarn, but the sweater actually only weighs 207. I don’t know where the rest of the weight went :P

I’m super pleased with the final result and have been wearing it a lot!