Sweater?

What sweater? I don't see no sweater! Oh, you mean that pile of . . . yarn! Hmm, yes I was working on a sweater and was sewing it up, hoping to show a finished product to Robin. Sigh, but alas, the sweater and I have disagreed about the underarms and shoulder seams. The arrow in the photo below shows the area of disagreement. This is the armscye or underarm. See how blocky it is. I was highly skeptical about this pattern when I bound off for this edge, but I liked the way the sweater looked in the picture, so I decided to try it. Well, I tried it and didn't like the resulting underarm seam. I did finish the seam. The picture was taken after I took the seam out, entire seam! The sweater pulled in the back and didn't lay right, so I frogged it.

I'm working on frogging the whole sweater now. The plan is to wash the yarn again, then design a sweater out of the yarn. The catch? There are two dye lots. I knit the front in one dye lot and the back and sleeves in another dye lot. The two sweater styles I'm looking at now are a drop shoulder and a raglan. The raglan I would love to knit all in one piece, so I'll wait until I have enough yarn of one dye lot to do that.

If I knit a drop shoulder sweater with this yarn, I would base the pattern on a favorite sweatshirt with drop shoulders. I still want a cardigan though, so there will be adapatations, but I am already thinking of the styling of the ribbing area. I may just do stockinette on the body and sleeves of the sweater and do a fancy ribbing instead. I have one in mind that I used in a previous sweater pattern and liked a lot.

Well, that's probably it until after SAFF.
Happy fibering!