hello! I’ve knitted a new jumper, from that big inherited bag of scraps and leftovers that has stymied my dreams of a minimalist, streamlined stash for quite a long time now… I’m trying to make a project a month and this little number is actually October’s project.
It’s a bit late, but of course a jumper is quite an involved project and I’ve knitted two jumpers in as many months now, phew. I’m trying very hard to keep up the pace though!
Unlike my jumper from last month, I knitted this one bottom up, and have decided for once and for all that this is far less practical way of knitting something on the fly, when your purpose is to keep on knitting until the yarn is gone. It’s hard to explain without doing it for yourself.. but essentially you have to cast on for the sleeves, and then pick up those stitches again to continue on the sleeves; which is kinda awkward. Also, you have less idea about eking out your yarn to last until the neck edge. And also, I’d started knitting in stocking stitch, and then became dissatisfied with the curly up nature of the lower edge, and had to pick up stitches again to knit a final ribbed edge to the bottom edge. Of course, these are very minor concerns really; since any project in which you’re trying to eke out set-in-stone quantities of yarns and still end up with a garment that is actually wearable is ALWAYS going have some difficulties.
I didn’t take a picture of the “before” yarns, but actually this project changed shape and form several times during the making and new yarns got added in as I went along. I’m pretty happy though… because there were about 11 balls/part balls of yarn in all to start with, and now they are all GONE from Le Stash. I’m particularly pleased with the “turquoise” stripes on the sleeves, which are actually four strands of two different colours of an extremely fine mohair yarn that I had no idea what on earth I could use for anything at all. The four of them held and knitted together as one turned out to be a reasonably good thickness to actually use.
As I was finishing it and thinking about how I was going to wear it, I was suddenly hit with the certainty that I absolutely needed a long sleeve, white hoodie tee to wear with it. And since I sew, I was happily able to immediately acquire such a thing, with no need to go shopping.
I used our own Carolyn & Cassie Pinjarra pattern, the high necked top version. I cut a size bigger than my usual for a loose fit, and cut a hoodie piece to fit the neckline length. I also added a few inches of length to the bottom edge, again for that loose look. It was a pretty easy hack of our own pattern! so easy that I wondered for a little bit whether we should draft the hood up and add it to the pattern.
I’m wearing them both here; at top with my Closet Core Patterns Ginger jeans, and then with my long term favourite Closet Core Patterns Sasha trousers… I really need to make some new ones of this great pattern!
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