Swatch to Sweater

In less than a week, I went from that….

To this…

It’s the Cozy V-Neck Sweater from Fitted Knits by Stefanie Japel.

This sweater is even easier than her One Skein Wonder pattern (of which I have made several, several shrugs.) The increases are insanely easy and I’m surprised I’ve gotten this far into it without getting bored. The ribbing might be a little more daunting, but I’m prepared to plow through that.

I only wish I had picked a different yarn, the Wool of the Andes is light worsted, regardless of what Knit Picks may claim. I’m tinkering with the thought of making a second one in Paton’s Classic Wool. But I’ll need to do a proper swatch first.

And on the note of swatches… I’m notoriously terrible about swatching for things. I knit pretty ‘regular’ and when I use the called for needles and weight of yarn I get gauge about 90% of the time. Its my cocky attitude towards gauge that has lef to such disasters as The Suck Sock, The Hedera Catastrophe and other horrifying gauge disasters.I’m a bad swatcher.

However, I actually swatched for this project. Three times!! First on size 7 because I missed the bit about two sizes of needles for the project. Second on plastic 9s only out of sheer desperation and then lastly on the size 9 Addi’s I bought specifically for the project. I’m so glad I splurged on the Addi’s, I would have been fighting the plastic junk the whole time. Not too surprisingly I had perfect gauge on size 9s. But I would have been very, very sad if I knit a whole sweater that didn’t fit.

That’s really all I’ve been putzing with these last few days, however, I did pick up some cotton to make a tiny zombie army for Somber. It would have been a surprise but I just couldn’t keep my mouth shut! Look for loads of pictures when they are all completed.