I started this guy a few weeks ago after mulling over yarn to use for the pattern, it dawned on me that I had enough Malabrigo stashed away to make it work. Now the Malabrigo was all different colors, and one of the colors, that I had the most of I decided against, canary yellow, not my color, but that didn't stop me from casting on. That Elizabeth Zimmerman, she was one hell of a lady, and this pattern is another great one of hers. It's basically a top down sweater, with saddles, and I love the garter stitch. I kept thinking that it wasn't going to fit me, my shoulders aren't that small, and someone even asked me if it was for Marley, but I kept on, and so far the fit seems pretty perfect.
It isn't knit in the round, but I got tired of the back and forth garter stitch. The weight of it, the fact that it eats yarn like my cat goes through cat food were among the reasons that I decided to add a few extra stitches (4) for a steek and join the sucker to work in the round. It has since grown much faster, and I think maybe this weekend I will steek it. EEEE!!! It is my first steek, and I think that is a pretty big deal, who ever thought to take scissors to their knitting?? Well I'm going to give it a go. I hear it's not really that big of a deal after you do it, but isn't everything that way?
The colors aren't entirely true in the photos, and obviously pay no attention to the time stamp. That pink on the sleeve is a little more neon, bubblegum than it lets on, also under the teal is a block of "Velvet Grape". That color ended up being the perfect tie in... thank you Andi. I am thinking the other sleeve will just be random single ridge stripes of all of the colors so far, and the bottom band of garter stitch, and the button band (post steek) will be the red that I started with at the neck line. I've tried to keep the color changes fairly mindless, but that does get a little difficult.
PS- the pattern is Cully's Epaulet Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman, from Knitting Workshop
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