Finally finished!
I think I've been working on this sweater since at least September of 2004. That's a long time! This is from Jo Sharp's book Knitting Bazaar and is called Georgia. I never could get the right gauge for this sweater, so I ended up redesigning it to match my gauge. I did email the Jo Sharp folks and they seemed to indicate it was my weird knitting. Only later did I find out that Jo Sharp DK was so popular for a while that they couldn't keep up, so they may have switched mills or they had more than one mill at a time producing it. Hence, my yarn could have been thicker or thinner than the yarn they worked with, and would never have knitted to the appropriate gauge. Honestly, I wonder if anyone else knitted this sweater! Anyhow, it is finished, thanks to the Yarn Harlot's Knitting Olympics. I didn't compete, I wasn't competitive, but I did find it motivating and finished this sweater... finally. I think I'll wear it a lot. The sweater's better than the photo, really! Here it is:
posted by Joanne at 12:16 PM
8 Comments:
I love the way it fits! You look so great! And that sure is a pretty color in the background ;-)
Yay!! I'm clicking my knitting needles for you! That's a great sweater - that's the one you'll be pulling out on the first brisk day in the fall!
The sweater looks great (and great on you!).
Denise
Yeah! it's done and it looks great!
lovely sweater and congrats on the interview :-)
Looks great, Joanne! I love that pattern. I have had trouble getting the Jo Sharp DK to knit to gauge as well, so you're not alone. They seem to want you to knit VERY tightly, which kind of works against the nice springyness of the yarn.
That looks very comfy. Finishing is good.
I often knit things and wonder if anyone else ever has, given the -er - challenges in the pattern.
Woohoo!
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