Tag: Christmas Jumper

Let’s get to the knitty gritty of this project! The pattern was The Perfect Christmas Jumper by Susan Crawford, and I knit mine using Quince and Co. Finch on the recommended needle sizes. I ended up using one skein of the white and slightly more than six skeins of red. I was in between the…

I didn’t get my sweater done in time for my knitting group’s Christmas party last Saturday. Although I probably could have seamed up all of my pieces and worn it, my colorwork always looks terrible if I haven’t wet blocked it, and I didn’t want to wear a sweater with sad, wrinkled colorwork on the…

I quickly seamed up my three finished sweater pieces on my Christmas sweater, and sadly, my sleeve is too short as I suspected. It’s only maybe half an inch too short to be passable, and two inches shorter than I’d like. I can actually pull it down to a passable length, but then I lose…