Winter Breton jumper

I'd seen a fair few designs for Breton jumpers appearing on Ravelry and decided I needed one!  Initially I'd though about using stripes in different colours, but in the end settled on using just one colour - Madeline Tosh Button Jar Blue.

The style was vaguely based on my Sparks in the Stream jumper, but I put some waist shaping into this one and also the stitchcount was different because this is knitted with skinnier yarn.  I've knitted quite a lot of garments with Drops Baby Merino and really like it - I found this colourway was not quite as soft as the others I've used though.  Only a marginal difference, but still different.  I used Madeline Tosh Unicorn Tails for the stripes and needed just over three.  The cuffs, hem and neckline are finished with i-cord.

My daughter saw me knitting this and asked me to knit her one the same, so this second version is hers.  I already had the Drops Extrafine Merino in stash (DK, lighter shade of grey than mine) but had to get some of the Button Jar Blue in DK to knit the stripes.  Luckily Meadow Yarn came up trumps (and while I was there I bought some Tosh sock yarn shhhh...)

Because this was a DK version it knitted up more quickly than mine, particularly the sleeves were much quicker to knit than with 4 ply.  She is really pleased with it which makes me happy :-).