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What a Feeling!

May 24, 2013 by Lee 3 Comments

As you may have guessed I am not a knitter of long term projects.  I like to finish up and move on!  Relatively small projects and/or medium sized ones with small bites to finish are my favs.  So how did I end up knitting myself a sweater?  A sweater!  I am not a small person so a sweater for me is a major undertaking.  But here I am–doing it!

And “it” is Berroco’s Bancroft sweater–

Bancroft

I just fell in love with it.  Of course, that didn’t mean I wouldn’t change a few things.  I changed the yarn to Berroco’s Maya, a luscious cotton and alpaca chainette, in a very similar green. Love it. Someday we will have to talk about the “knit it in the same color as the pattern/sample” syndrome.  Remind me.

I have finished the back–made it two inches longer and then brought the neck in.  I have relatively narrow shoulders so the neck as written would have been a leetle Flashdance.

Jennifer-Beals-in-Flashdance-movie

Not quite the look I am going for. And now I can’t get the music out of my head. Ear worm!

But wait, there’s more.  I like the shirt tail dip in the back so I am reproducing that for the fronts and, yes, I am making it into a cardigan.  Because this is not a complex pattern and the shaping is minimal the changes have not been challenging.  Really, I promise, you could do it too.

I think I will love it and wear it and be so surprised that I knit a sweater for myself.  But first…I have to finish it.  Wish me luck!

 

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  1. Marsha says

    May 26, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    You’re back! Somehow you neglected to tell me this. The dye workshop was fun ad maybe you can post mine attempts- they came out very differently.

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  2. Robin MacAskill says

    June 29, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    I am wishing you luck. I’d love to have some hand-knit sweaters myself. But, like you, for me it would be a major project. I’m working on hats at the moment.

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  3. Susan says

    July 11, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    I have wanted to make this into a cardigan too, since I first saw the pattern. Started the back yesterday but have to start again…came out way too wide, even using size 6 needles and 2nd smallest size! Guess I’ll go down to size 5 needles and XS today; I must be a very loose knitter! Using Floret, which I don’t really like–too much acrylic and loosely spun. Please keep us updated on the progress of your cardigan.

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