Archive for April, 2010
The Interminable Intarsia Sweater
It took forever, I unraveled it an re-knit it twice, and I had to send away for another ball of yarn to get it done, but it is, indeed, done.
The pattern is the Wildflower Sweater from Handknits For Kids by Lucinda Guy.
The yarn is Shine Sport from Knitpicks in Green Apple, Marmalade, and Butter.
This was my first real intarsia project (with large blocks of color) and it was not, in retrospect, a good choice to learn a new technique because of the complex shapes and multiple colors. I thought I had enough experience in colorwork, because I’ve done quite a bit of Fair Isle… but then again, I’ve always kinda sucked at Fair Isle. :)
I left off the additional embroidery on the flowers, because I thought they stood up just fine without it. The puckers that are due to my bad technique actually don’t look too bad in a flower-like context. And I love the faux smocking at the top.
It was a lot of work, but I’m better at intarsia now, all the ends are worked in, all the seams are seamed, and the sweater is delivered to its intended recipient, who, thank heavens, did not outgrow it in the year I spent knitting, unraveling, and re-knitting it.
