Last summer, Lehigh Valley temperatures reached their standard 100-degrees, accompanied by approximately 1,000% humidity. In my overheated delusion, I, of course, decided that would be a great time to start knitting a worsted weight sweater. Out of wool.
It wasn’t a good plan.
To be fair, I holed myself up in my office with the window A/C unit cranked up to 11 and two fans blowing on me, so the majority of knitting wasn’t terrible. But I finished one sleeve and had a wedding to plan, so it wasn’t long before I shoved this to the bottom of a project bag and didn’t look at it until a couple weeks ago.
That’s when sweater weather finally hit the area again and my fingers got itchy for a bigger project while I waited for this year’s WestKnits MKAL to spin up. I figured The Weekender would be a quick win since I’d already abandoned it on sleeve island and didn’t have much more to go to just call it a day.
I was right, but oh boy, knitting sleeves really does suck. 10/10 would not recommend, even though they’re well worth the result. They’re just so… boring. Around and around and around we go on the small circumference stockinette train with occasional decreases here and there for shaping.
No thank you.
But like I said, it’s worth it, and part of the reason I didn’t want to get back to it was because I’d taken a risk on the fit and was worried it would be funky. The sweater is supposed to have 10” of positive ease, but for lack of better phrasing, my boobies are huge and I thought that would look ridiculous. I’d rather risk making it too small than accidentally channel a circus tent. So yeah, I sized down to the size below what was recommended and figured the length would figure itself out in blocking.
I was right. I do think I should’ve added maybe another 2” to the length, but it doesn’t look bad - I just have an annoyingly long torso. Overall, though, I’m happy with the shape and am glad I took the risk.
Project Info
Pattern: The Weekender by Andrea Mowry
Yarn: Cascade 220 Merino
Colorway: 62
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