Great pattern - well written and easy to follow.
The details:
Yarn: Sirdar Donegal Tweed; washes and dries like a dream, and softens up a LOT after!
Size: Made the 44 because I’d read that the sweater ran small, but I should have made the 40.
Mods: Did the fronts and back all in one piece, knit the sleeves in the round (I hate seaming!) and made the button band only 1/2 inch deep because I installed a zipper instead of using buttons. Also short-rowed the shoulders and did a three-needle bind off on the shoulders and hood seam.
This was a great knitalong - learned a few new things and met some new bloggers, which are always good things :)
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9 comments:
I love it! The color is great and the zipper looks wonderful. Congratulations!
Wow. Just WOW. Looks fab!
Beautiful sweater and you got a perfect color match on the zipper which is a really clever mod.
Wonderful job. I think it fits you perfectly. I really like the look of that yarn, too. Where did you get it?
Thanks everyone :)
Freda, the yarn is Sirdar Donegal Tweed that I found at my LYS...
^ oops, that would be me, brenda, commenting up there!
It's absolutely gorgeous!
I'm thinking of knitting the 44 also. I'm getting 4.5 stitches per inch and would need to make the 44 for it to size down to the 40. How many stitches per inch were you getting?
I think it's gorgeous, and it looks fine on you! I like the zipper idea better than buttons.
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