I wanted a longer, more interesting knitting project for my trip to Colorado for the Complex Weaver's Conference. I had been struggling for color inspiration. I already knit the Chou Sweater with stash yarn, and I feel a little "meh" about that sweater, it's finally growing on me though. I striped out stash yarn and doing stripes was more involved than I would have liked. I knit to relax and keep my hands busy, not to have to keep making design decisions.
So when I came across Void on the Knitting is Metal website I had found the one for my next sweater project. I bought 4 skeins. I wound 2 into balls for the trip and packed a third skein just in case (thankfully). I ended up hand-balling the skein at my cousin's house towards the end of my trip when I ran out of the second ball. Thank you Gotham Knits for posting on Instagram lots of fun knitting videos but also proving that hand-balling yarn isn't that much more time-consuming than using a ball winder. Yarn travels batter and is happier when you keep it in skein-form until you need it. I had purchased a few sweater patterns from Jessie Maed Designs for my (her) birthday sale. My numbers were a little off, I should have bought an extra "emergency" skein. It ended up being ok though, I realized I prefer my sleeves just below the my elbow (I'm always pulling them up), so I'd just knit them shorter than the pattern suggested.
I knit most of the body for this sweater on my trip and then worked the bottom edge and sleeves when I got home. The downside of knitting a sweater, especially in DK weight, is is gets a bit cumbersome to be a portable knitting project, but I managed. I'm SO happy with how it turned out.
It's finally getting cold enough to wear it!
#cozyclassicraglan @jessssiemae
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