Ok- you all know me. While I love this sweater I need to make it suit me…. so of course I need to put a skull or a bat in here some where.

It took several attempts but instead of doing something completely different in the space I only did a small alteration to the chart and added a skull.

PROJECT NOTES

• I really dislike wrap and turns… so I am doing German Shorts Rows instead.

• going to try and do the colorwork as Intarsia. I have never done this before. Using this tutorial I found here.

• Went with Plan B and decided not do original mod to design. This is more stranded colorwork so it should be a little easier than Intarsia.

• Don’t like the large white space leading up to the pattern so I went in and embroidered some black stitches.

• Forgot to blend the black skeins so that was no pooling- gonna frog back and start over.

• Had a hard time understating the directions for the sleeves which is why I hate hate hate W&T. So I am doing German short rows instead. I actually had to frog and start over with this.

• Realized that I am still doing the sleeve directions wrong and did more short rows than I should before the center decreases. So I have one decrease that will go past marker X. I hope the sleeve caps still look right as I have no intention of frogging again. I just want this project to be over.

• After completeing the short rows on the sleeves I ended up with 62 sts instead of 58. I think I was supposed to do some tog at some point but for some reason I find these directions to be so confusing. It worked out for the best though- my upper arms tend to be larger so the sleeves fit nicely without being pulled. But I think because I did the decreases wrong there is not much puff on the top of my sleeves.