| Another Christmas
project. Rare Comfort is incredibly light, silky mohair with amazing
yardage--95 yards per 25 grams. The whole sweater used only 190 grams of
yarn. Luckily, it was very cooperative when it came to frogging: I had
already knitted the whole back and half of one front of this sweater
when I decided it was going to be too big--so I ripped it out and
started over. The color is lovely--deepest mahogany (fairly accurate in
these photos).
The pattern does not include the ribbon-threaded eyelets. I added that
detail, inspired by an Anthropologie sweater. Once I'd figured out how
to space the eyelets, the tricky part was remembering to knit them in. I
put a snap on the inside of each sweater front and another on the ribbon
ends, so the ribbon can be changed at will. I also shortened the
sleeves, not entirely intentionally, to what is known as "bracelet
length."
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Thérèse's
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