Done!
And yes, we will be refinishing our floors soon, why do you ask? If you notice, I worked the back higher on the shoulders, as per EZ’s advice. Usually when working a sweater in the round like this, you insert a few short rows so the back doesn’t ride up (I see London, I see France, etc), but with a complicated pattern like this one, you just can’t do it. So what you do is cast off five stitches at the beginning of each row and work back and forth, (can get complicated working a cable round from the back, ask me how I know!) until you have 40 stitches left live for the neck. It makes a nicely rounded top, which will be sewn to the front shoulders.
I just love the pattern here – combined with the yarn I used, it feels so earthy, and smells somewhat sheepy (in a good way) and flows so beautifully. Elizabeth Zimmerman is truly a genius. I’m going to be very sad when this project is over. So will the little guy:
I was trying to take pictures of the sweater, and who rolls on over, but my very own personal kitten! I swear my son has supernatural powers to detect any sort of string, wire or yarn. Must be the yarn fumes. Well, tangling my ball of leftover yarn is better than his usual hobby of chewing on the power cords (or at least trying his best to do so). I promise this is the last gratuitous baby picture – here he is caught in the act:
Ooooh – I can’t wait to get started on this! I have the February project on the needles first, as I just had a new niece, but as soon as that’s done – ARAN here i come!
Beautiful knitwork – and oh such a cute baby!
Nice sweater body – and your little one is so cute (and getting bigger/older all the time)!! I wonder if he’ll grow up to be fiber-inclined after rolling around so much yarn as a wee one?
I love knitting sweater bodies in the round. No sewing up the side seams. Once I figured out how to do it, I started adjusting all of my patterns to it.