Knitting Desaster
The wool for this sweater was on special offer, I bought it almost 4 years ago, and have been working on it on and off for about a year. I couldn’t find a design that fits the bulky, hairy yarn and my petite figure, so I swatched and designed until I thought I knew what to do. Today I finally finished it. I love the colours and the sweater. It took so long because I didn’t want to work on it on the commute, because the yarn is hand-washing only and the pattern complicated.
This is the pattern close up. It is an old pattern, called grape vine, trees (where I live) or print o’ the waves.
The only problem: the sweater doesn’t fit me. At all. That’s what the title of the posting is about. It looks actually worse on me than the photograph suggests. I’m small and skinny, so overly big and bulky sweaters do not exactly look flattering on me.
The stuff is really hairy and has a lot of wool and mohair, frogging it would ruin the yarn. So I’ll probably sell or gift it, although it’s breaking my heart.
What a bummer! It is so beautiful – I love the stitch pattern.
Oh, dear! That sweater does “swallow you”, as we would say. Too bad…I love the pattern. I would suggest trying to shrink it by washing in warm water, but with the mohair and all, that would probably make a bigger mess. =( I hope you find someone that loves it and fits in it as it’s a nice sweater!
I love it!!!! Seriously – I’m a UK/Australian size 14.
But how totally frustrating for you!!!!!!!!!