I finished knitting a sweater a bit ago, and it’s pretty cool. Some thoughts:
- The cuffs ended up being a touch too wide, but it’s workable. I think this sweater is really good for wearing over an oxford, and as such slightly wider cuffs may be fine.
- I used the placket / open neck line reminiscent of 1/4 zip sweaters, but chose for the first time to do garter stitch rather than ribbing for the horizontal parts of the plackets, which worked pretty well, though I might choose to execute them differently in the future. Having said that, I think I want to explore different neck shapes.
- I didn’t do any kind of lower body shaping, which is fine, particularly on such a boxy garment, but waist shaping is a good thing that I’d use again in the future.
- This is the first drop shouldered garment I’ve made since the knitting hiatus. It was comforting, but I suspect I’ll not knit another for quite a while.
- I’d knit this sweater before using exactly these colors, albeit in a thicker weight yarn, and a few times with different color combinations. It was really fun and familiar.
- HD Shetland Yarn is pretty awesome. This was the first time I’d used it for non-stranded knitting, and it was great fun to knit.
- The previous couple of sweaters that I’d made were both knit at about 9 stitches to the inch, and this was about 7 stitches to the inch, which means that it felt like it went really fast. It’s wild how we acclimate to things.