Listen, I had some false starts on this, but boy was it worth it!
I’m so pleased with how it’s come out. Even though I wasn’t sure about the sleeves, the joins look absolutely fine. Yes, there’s a ridge where I joined them, but it’s even, and I’m very reassured by comments on my last post that this is inevitable. I think I just prefer a raglan or top down design, or anything seamless really.
Don’t you just love the stripey sleeves? I’m so glad I used up this paintbox yarn for the alternating colour. It looks absolutely right.
As always, the magic of blocking brings me great joy. The jumper looked OK straight off the needles but after a soak and steam (which may have been slightly aggressive, the fabric has a shine that wasn’t there before…), it’s as flat and even as you like.
Think that’s good? Get a load of this:
Doesn’t it just pop? It looks so smooth, and the colours are so integrated, no sign of where the yarn is twisted in the back.
I used duplicate stitch to tidy up some stray colourwork errors. The top right of the crossbones is still looking a little off, but heck, whose skeleton’s perfect?
That was a surprising sentence.
The finished jumper weighs about 200g. I haven’t weighed the leftover cotton yarn from my c2c blanket but if I’ve used 162g or more in that (and surely I have?!), my stash will be under 9kg, which is half a kilo gone in the first month of the year. G is starting to worry about my yarn weighing fixation. It’s bringing me a lot of joy and a sense of achievement though, so I’m going to keep right on doing it until that changes!
As a reminder, this is Pirate’s Cutie (Ravelry link) by Shiri Mor.
I’ve added this post to the Unraveled Wednesday linkup, with thanks to Kat for hosting.
The Crafty Yarnster 