Fresh off the needles: Keia's Golden Gopher Sweater

There’s no real reason that such a simple sweater took so long to knit. Or any sweater really. But what are you going to do? It did, in fact, take over seven months to knit. I got it done just in time for my sister, Keia to wear on our visit to my mom’s hometown last weekend.

Yarn chicken again? Girl, what is wrong with you?

I know right? This is the second time I’ve done this on a sweater I knit for Keia. I don’t know what it is that makes me under-estimate the amount of yarn I need for her sweaters. In my semi-defense, I wouldn’t have had to worry about it at all had I stuck to the original plan and just knit a plain stockinette stitch sweater. Either way, I did have more than enough yarn which makes my yarn chicken record 2-0.

I guess I’m a liar

Ha ha. Remember in my last sweater post when I swore that my next sweater was going to be knit using an actual pattern? Yeah, well, I lied. I turned to my trusty whatever that book is called once again. I used the drop shoulder sized in the adult 36 chest. As I mentioned earlier, I was planning on knitting another stockinette stitch sweater but veered off course when I was browsing through my vintage booklets and found a sweater with a broken rib stitch. I liked the look of it and decided to use it for this sweater. And I am quite happy with the results.

I’m not even going to end this post saying that the next sweater I knit will be from an actual pattern because the next sweater I knit is going to be my annual Christmas sweater and I never knit those from patterns. But I will say this, I will make it my 2019 goal to knit at least one sweater from an already written pattern. How’s that?

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