I’m pleased to present my first finished object of 2008, my Hillswick Lumber Fair Isle sweater. I won’t even pretend that this sweater was started in 2008, since the first post about it is from May, 2007. All I did today was attach the buttons, which I purchased yesterday.
Sweater in use:
Please excuse my “it’s a holiday and I’m not going anywhere so I haven’t showered yet” hairdo and the awful bathroom lighting. The main things to notice in this photo are:
* The sweater fits!
* The stripes on the body and sleeves align nicely when I’m wearing the sweater.
Some detail shots:
I knit the size Small as it appears in the pattern, with one alteration – I lengthened the sleeves. I’m really glad I did – you can see in the in-use picture that they’re the perfect length. My theory is that because these sweaters are often worn with a lot of ease (far more than I wanted – some patterns I’ve seen have 10″ of ease over the bust measurement!), the extra body width essentially becomes sleeve length. Because I chose a size with less ease than perhaps was intended in the pattern (about 4″), I needed to lengthen the sleeves to accommodate this. That, or I’ve got monkey arms.
This looks fantastic! I can’t imagine how long it took. They don’t look like monkey arms to me. Perhaps James can make a comparison.
Wow, that is so impressive!
Wow, Rebecca, that’s beautiful. And I don’t think you have monkey arms either; or if you do, so do I, since I often have trouble finding shirts with sleeves that are long enough. (Maybe I am a monkey, though, since I can’t find pants that are short enough. Why don’t my knuckles drag on the ground?)