While I was cataloguing my stash, I had to face up to this abandoned project. I knew it was there but had put it out of my mind, to the extent that seeing the pattern on the front was a surprise. I don’t actually remember knitting this. I remember trying a pattern with this yarn and unraveling it all because it was doing my head in, but not remaking it into half a sweater!
I cannot find the pattern for the sweater – the one I tried first was saved to my files in May 2019, so it was around that time. I still have 116 yards of the yarn, too, which *might* be enough to finish? It doesn’t sound like a lot so perhaps not. Drops Cotton Light is still available so I can top up if I need to. I had evidently abandoned this sweater completely, because I used some of the yarn I had in a rainbow baby blanket instead, and some more in a very cute Panda Sweater (Ravelry link) by Stine Hoelgaard (Hobbii link) that I didn’t photograph when finished but here it is mostly done!
Anyway… I’m going to have a look at finishing it, despite the lack of pattern. The sides are just picked up and knit outwards, flat, to make a panel. Then they’re seamed together until the armpit, then the sleeves are worked out flat from there (either with short rows or decreases for shaping, tbc) and then seamed. I’m glad it was made this way because that means I’ll be able to undo it and have another go at making that seam more aesthetically appealing.
It does seem like it’ll fit – slightly hard to tell with it being only half done but I’m reasonably confident, especially if it blocks out. It’s quite crumply so I think I will get more width once it’s steamed. And in theory the lack of pattern isn’t a problem: the stitch definition is so sharp that I should be able to count stitches and rows easily, and it’s all stockinette.
It feels very strange to *know* that I made something but not actually recall doing it. But I guess it’s been a bit of a gift from past me? And the second half of the gift will be using up the last of that yarn and removing it from my stash catalogue!
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