18-11-2019

Mods and fixes:

1. Started from “yoke” section going up, with provisional CO on 340 (Vintersol-style), so I can adjust it all ways. I don’t like bottom-up sweaters, since I can’t modify the length after.
2. The pattern for the yoke is beautiful for sure, but fairly hard to knit. Or, actually purl. The thing is, it goes against your brain, you think you are supposed to do a knit but the pattern says purl. Kinda like those words that say “yellow” but they are coloured in blue.
3. Some decreases I made in other places - the first one that was on the side made the pattern wonky, so I tried to only make decreases in the middle of the pattern for the yoke
4. The short row sections have an error - need to pass 2 stitch markers back and forth, not only one. The way it’s written, the short rows go over left shoulder and back only.
5. The neck opening is way too large at 150 st, see the picture. What would be with the smaller gauge like in the pattern?!? I don’t think anybody thought about the neck opening for larger sizes, they just went with the flow. 170 st for the largest size? I can only imagine, FFS, it’s the hip large size! Even if I’m fat, I don’t have the neck of a cow!! So I did one more full decrease to 120 st and 15 more rows. Did 4 short rows in the second short row section, instead of two. Now it looks reasonable.

28-11-2019

Yoke finished. 296g of yarn left.

28-12-2019

Finished body. 162g of yarn left.
After dividing for the sleeves, went down from the yoke, just straight until desired length. 16 stitches for the underarms is a little bit much, but not too bad.

06-01-2020

Finished one sleeve. 122g left. So I have enough yarn for the sweater.
I didn’t check the pattern anymore - just decreased 2 stitches every 5th row until desired width. This happened to also be the desired length.

23-02-2020

Best sweater ever, I wear it every other day, but if it were socially acceptable, I would not take it off all winter. Classic but not boring, light, warm, not too hot, not too cold, just bliss.

Handwashed first 2 times, not good, turned fishnet. Then I washed in machine on delicate, with delicate detergent, in a laundry bag. Dry on a big towel. It’s perfect. Gets better, softer, fluffier with each wash. No pilling.