I took some time this week to do all the sewing and finishing on my Hollywood Herringbone Pullover and it is done. No modeled shots, I’m sick, I look sick, and I feel too sick to get dressed and go outside and take pictures of myself. I did go outside, though, since it was warm, just in my pajamas.
I love the sweater laying flat like this. It looks so cool with that low neck and the little wooden buttons on the sleeve but I’m not loving the fit. I should have gone ahead and made the next size down (I keep forgetting that I’m smaller than I think I am), I would like the neck to be a little higher and the sleeves could be an inch or so shorter, but it doesn’t look bad and it’s really comfortable. Actually, after I did all the finishing and let it sit for a couple days the sweater relaxed, I guess you could call it, and shrunk up a bit and it looks pretty good, the fit isn’t like the sample on the model in the magazine, mine is a bit looser. I like it and I’ll wear it, this is a nice cozy sweater that would look great with a pair of jeans or dressed up a bit more with a skirt and some cute shoes. Overall I am very happy with how it came out.
Here’s a close up of the buttons, they’re just cheap wooden buttons from the craft store. I had thought about painting them a bright color with some shiny paint, like a lacquered red, but I just decided to leave them, simple is best sometimes. You don’t really need the buttons on this sweater, this seam could be sewn up like the other side and have a regular raglan but the detail is nice, I’ll probably never even unbutton it, which is good since the button holes are really small.
The yarn, Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool, really surprised me. The color is beautiful, I love that heathery brown, and the yarn itself is very soft to the touch and it’s not too itchy, it itches my arms a little but not bad enough that I can’t wear the sweater. The yarn comes in these huge skeins, over 400yds, and since I got mine on sale the sweater cost a little less than $40 and used a little less than four skeins. The natural color is the same that I wove my shibori scarf with and it takes dye beautifully.
Here’s the details or you can see more on my Ravelry page:
- Pattern: Hollywood Herringbone Pullover by Kate Gagnon Osborn from the Fall/Winter 2009 Knitscene
- Yarn: Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool in Nature’s Brown and Natural
- Needles: US5/4mm US 8/5mm
- Started September 13 finished November 3
- Modifications: None, but if I made it again I would make the neck higher and go down a size.
I have a couple more sweaters in the queue (I just wrote queso instead of queue, did it again, must have cheese on the brain) I’m finishing up Heroine and then I’m going to start on the Alpaka Tunic by Deborah Newton (Fall ‘09 IK). I bought some Berroco Ultra Alpaca in this dust gray blue that I’m going to use for the Tunic. I’m kind of nervous about starting it because I keep thinking I didn’t buy enough yarn even though I’ve done the math on it about fifty times and it’s right. I don’t know what my deal is, it’s probably because the tunic is so big and the yarn was so expensive, it was an early birthday present to myself because I love alpaca and would wear it all the time if I could. I keep trying to take pictures of Heroine but it just looks like a giant pile of green on my desk, this thing is seriously huge, and I can’t get the pieces to look like anything resembling a coat. It’s a mess but I know that end the end it will be great. All this will wait until next week to be blogged because I have lots to catch up on like, I’ve woven scarves, plural!, and started a pair of socks and I’m going to dye some yarn, I have almost half the money I need to buy my loom, all kinds of stuff. Did you know I’ve only knit one pair of socks this year? That must be remedied and soon.
Have a great weekend, I’m going to spend mine in bed, watching movies, playing Plants vs. Zombies and getting over my cold. And doing lots and lots of knitting.
