

Yarn: Marianthi yarn in Merino fingering extra soft, in the Opal colourway
This is one of those patterns I have been meaning to make for ages, and the yarn had been in my stash for one year already. I am so happy I finally cast on. The yarn is so so soft, and so much fun with the subtle speckles in many different colours throughout.


But in full honestly, I will show this picture of the back of the sweater as well. I think I have been seriously knitting for 5-6 years now, but I am very far done from learning. I often find that if I am not very good at a technique, I will avoid it. Which is truly a shame and stops me from knitting all the patterns I want. One thing that often holds me back is alternating skeins when knitting with hand-dyed yarn. I’m much more prone to do this when I know my sloppy alternations are easily hide-able in the button band of a cardigan for example. With sweater I’ll often only alternate for the body, and not for the yoke part where it would be more obvious to see. For this sweater I did alternate throughout, with the exception of the turtleneck. For the yoke the alternation happened on the back, for the body I alternated on the side, where it looks like a seem. And is my alternation on the back neat and invisbible? Hell no, you can definitely tell. I know a lot of knitters would probably run away screaming from a sweater with such an obvious ladder in plain view. But honestly? I don’t care so much. It’s a learning process, at least I did not shy away from it this time. I’m sure in the future I will do better, and until then, I will be wearing this sweater with pride. Imperfections and all.

Ik vind hem heel mooi geworden ! En hoera voor het gewoon proberen ! Het is dat je het noemde, maar mij was die ladder niet zo opgevallen… ( bij mijn eigen breisels zie ik dat soort dingen altijd erger, omdat ik dan voor ogen heb hoe het had ‘moeten’ worden… )
What if you did helical stripes? I have thought that I would try this myself someday. Perhaps the ladder would be gone? don’t know how to keep track of rounds though 🙂