10-20-2022

Not sure if these will work. They are all sock/fingering. My initial body choices are pictured. From top left the first row is A, B, C
Second row is D, E, and I was wavering between the two last ones for F. I think I will go with the dark green instead of the gray/brown for now. If the sweater is looking too dark, then I might swap the last yarn.

I’m going to start with the 46” size since my yarns are thinner so it will probably end up smaller than expected.

A - Lang Yarns
B - Noti Flourish
C - unknown
D - Knitting Notions bamboo
E - unknown (bamboo?)
F - Fyberspates

10-20-2022

Looking at other people’s versions, it looks better with the darker color on bottom for the body so I’m going to switch B & C colors. B = dark blue/green, and C=neon green.

10-22-2022

I thought this would run a little small since I was using sock/fingering weight, but the slip stitch pattern is giving me 5-1/4 stitches to the inch for gauge and the pattern calls for 6. So this will end up slightly larger instead. I’m going to go a couple more rows but I might need to go down a needle size to get rid of the excess ease that I didn’t want.

10-24-2022

I’ve knitted about 4 inches of the body so I put it on a lifeline and tried it on. I’m going to have to rip the whole thing out and start over. It’s currently about 6 inches too big.

11-14-2022

I did rip it out and restart with a smaller size after the last comment and I’m much more pleased with the size so far.

11-19-2022

Ran out of the first color at 12” up the body.

11-21-2022

Finished the body up to the underarms. Time to start the sleeves.

11-28-2022

Added a picture to show the body and the start of the sleeve.

12-08-2022

Finished first sleeve and starting next sleeve.

12-23-2022

Starting the yoke. I discovered there is a mistake in the directions for attaching the sleeves. It lists putting 3 sets of 14 stitches onto waste yarn, but one set is really being counted twice and we are only supposed to be putting 2 sets.

01-01-2023

Adding 2 more colors for N and O was looking way too busy. So I’ve substituted the main sleeve color for N and the contrast sleeve color for O.

01-02-2023

Finished the body and kitchnered the underarms. Just need to attach the inner neckline and weave in all ends.

01-28-2023

Finished weaving in all ends. Just need to stitch down the inside of the neckline and this will be finished. If I make this again, I will use russian joins so that I won’t have all these ends to weave in again.

All of the in-progress pictures are bizarre colors. The yarns aren’t photographing anywhere near the real colors.

01-29-2023

Finished! Just need to get pictures and then I can mark the project as finished.

01-29-2023

The final finished picture finally has the right colors.

12-02-2023

Wore this out to dinner and discovered something ate holes in both sleeves, so have to throw this away like lots of my recent sweaters and tshirts.,