~ training and experience ~

I finished this sweater the morning before catching the plane to San Francisco. It's a seamless garter stitch kimono-style sweater with the climbing vines motif from the Interweave winter 2008 pattern. The vines were interesting and fun to knit. It was a surprise for me to learn that the vines are achieved by increases and decreases rather than cables.

I knit the body in one piece up to the arms, at which point I cast on stitches for the length of the arms and continued working it in one piece. I also worked short rows along the outer edge of the arms so that they could fold over nicely. I worked the front 'longer' than the back and folded the fronts of the arms over to the back and finished it off with a three needle bind off.

The yarn is a cotton/wool blend from a recycled thrift store sweater. I thought that the cotton in the yarn would yield a summer-appropriate garment. The sweater is a bit more cropped than I normally would go for, a result of not having enough yarn to make it longer (always a challenge when recycling thrift store sweaters), but it works as a summer warmer. I was also impressed to find in my button stash a red butten to match the yarn - - if memory serves, I found the button somewhere along the sidewalk and I picked it up because I thought I might one day have a use for a big red button. One person's road-side trash is another's treasure, eh.

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