When we got these new colors in, something about the green and the black&white, I immediately wanted to stripe them! Wide stripes! I envisioned a wide-striped sweatshirt inspired super-comfy pullover. I’ve been daydreaming about it for months… so I’m casting on!

This pattern is NOT designed for what I envision, BUT I think it’s gonna work. Really. I hope so anyway. I like the neckline, and I graphic-designed this book, which means I spent a lot of time with the patterns, and this pattern seemed well-designed. It’s very simple, so I think it’s a good blank-canvas kind of pattern for what I want.

Basically, I’m using the pattern for the stitch counts and the neck/shoulder/sleeves shaping… I plan to leave out the waist shaping, and I’ll be working a little reverse stockinette instead of ribbing at the bottom hem. I was able to get perfect gauge with this worsted weight cotton on size US 6 needles, and I like the fabric, so it should work out. Fingers crossed!

The body is movie theater knitting!

Bottom stripe (black) was knit to Dark Waters.
Second stripe (green) knit to Color Out of Space.
Third (black) knit to Birds of Prey
Fourth (green) knit to Frozen II

(That was the last movie we saw in the theater, I think on March 1st, before stay-at-home began. So this sweater got put on hold, but then I realized it might be quite a long time on hold and it’s a cotton sweater so I wanted to finish it before next winter. So I’ll now be knitting stripes to movies at home, with the lights out to pretend we’re in the theater.)

Fifth (black) knit to It Chapter II (this stripe is extra wide because this movie was so freaking long)
Sixth (green) knit to Transit
Seventh (black) knit to The Half of It
Eighth (green) knit to Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Body done! I stopped when the body measured approx 15.5” (I skipped all body shaping).

I worked the front/back/shoulders and sleeve caps exactly as written I think. But with stripes. I finished the sleeves with 3x3 ribbing.

Lastly, the neckline was HUGE when I tried it on after finishing the sleeves, so I improvised the neck: I picked up evenly around, marking the center front and center back. I worked 3x2 ribbing, plus centered double decreases at the front center every other round, and decreases in the back (spaced a few stitches apart so it wouldn’t make a sharp V) in the back, every other round as well. And I did one extra front CDD on the bind-off round in front to really bring in that V. I love how it turned out! The neckband shaping worked out PERFECTLY!

It used 445 grams total, so 3 skeins each color (but really like 2 +a little skeins each).