I’ve knitted a little jumper… this is made completely from scraps and leftover wool from other projects and the (still) large bag of bits and pieces that Mum gave me a couple of years ago. Something from nothing! Seriously, my favourite sort of thing to make…
the unpromising beginnings…
I started out following a pattern, but before long ended up frogging and reknitting the entire thing just following my gut instinct. It’s a simple raglan design, top down, in the round, with double increases at the two sleeve junctions every row until the underarm, otherwise no shaping. Top down meant I could keep knitting until I ran out of wool; which to be honest happened a little sooner than ideal! Ideally I would have liked it a little longer, and with longer sleeves too, but well… c’est la vie.
To Craig, I’d voiced my concerns that I was going to run out of wool and he replied that I could just go and buy some more… so logical! But of course completely defeating the purpose of using up Le Stash! Honestly, sometimes I feel like the stash-reduction project is maybe just a martyred pursuit… but, you know. Also a virtuous one too, sometimes. I used up every single scrap of yarn pictured above, except for one small ball that I decided the colour looked a little off against the others.
I’m quite happy with how the yarns worked out distributed across the jumper, not too much concentrated across any particular section. When it came to changing the colours, I knitted a few centimetres past the previous colour change before changing to the new colour, so that there wouldn’t be a build up of knots and bulky weave-ins concentrated in one area; and this worked well too. I wove in all ends as I was going along, and am always thankful at the end of any project whenever I think to do this! Seriously, a life saver!
The thing is… I already have a vaguely similar jumper to this one, that is quite precious to me since the yarn was a gift from a dear friend. Do I even need another little pink jumper?! It is actually not too bad looking, I think; and very warm, and comfortable to wear. Serendipitously, Mum admired it the first day I wore it, so I may give it to her.
I’m also super happy I managed to finish this one a few days before my end of the month deadline! Yay! My knit/month pledge has turned out to be quite gruelling to be honest, and it’s difficult to fit in so much knitting. To look on the bright side, I’m two thirds of the way through, and only have four projects to go!
Details: I also made my ivory top worn underneath, and my jeans too…
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