Fortunately, I've now finished work for the Christmas / New Year break, presents have been wrapped, food has been bought and the house tidied and decorated, so I can do some guilt-free blog-catching-up and scheduling of posts for the next week or so.
At the beginning of last month I decided that I wanted a bit of mindless knitting - a simple stocking stitch jumper - and this is it. Perfect TV knitting and possibly my most favourite jumper at the moment. The yarn - Malabrigo Arroyo - is super soft and absolutely lovely to knit with and to wear. The name is basically a translation from the Spanish Arroyo = stream, and the colourway is Chispas = sparks. Not very original but there it is.
The body is knitted straight and seamed, with no shaping until the armholes and the sleeves are picked up and knitted top down.
As I was knitting I thought that maybe it could do with a bit of a lift, and on one of these occasions I was wearing a mustard cord skirt and thought 'well, I like that colour combination' and that's why there is i-cord edging round the hem, cuffs and neckline in some leftover tosh sock from this project.
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| knitting in progress |
I'm rather pleased with how it looks.
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| There are actually quite a lot of colours in this yarn! |
I'm very happy with how this turned out, and the fact that it fits how I hoped it would. It's a great casual jumper and makes a change from the fitted styles I've been knitting for the rest of this year.
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