Last fall I bought The Best of Interweave Knits with the aim of knitting my mother a birthday sweater. This February I finished it, and now I’m finally blogging about it. All in all it only took about seven months, so it could be worse (…right?). The pattern is mostly stockinette stitch, so for the most part it would be a very easy first sweater. It’s not my first, but it is the first sweater I’ve knit that I think is wearable, so I’m very pleased. Turning the collar while decreasing was a bit tricky, but I only needed to rip back on one side to correct; after that there weren’t any problems.
The sleeves are a bit long and the sweater doesn’t yet have the beautiful button she chose for it, but you get the idea. I love the dark green she picked, though it’s perhaps a more sensible color and material for the midwestern winter than here, in the blinding Florida sunshine. I promise the next post will be spring / summer appropriate.
This pattern gets its name from a Dizzy Gillespie peice that is appropriate for every season. See for yourself, and enjoy the beautiful weather:
