I finally finished my husband's jumper that I had been promising for quite a while, he kept slipping down the list as I knit jumpers for my sons and now for my grandson. Finally, he made it to the top of the list. Not that he doesn't have any handknit jumpers by me, I have done a number over the years.
I finally found a jumper I was happy with and he seemed to like. He did ask for a jumper with a zip, but I managed to dissuade him of that. From one of my books 'Vogue Men's Knits' by Christina Probert. They are re-imaginings of earlier Vogue Knitting patterns, published in 1985.
I selected Bendigo Woollen Mills 5ply Classic in the colour Broadleaf. This did mean that I needed to swatch and recalculate the pattern. The switch from 30sts to 10cm to 26sts to 10cm didn't prove too problematic and I managed to get the fit fairly correct and the finish to his specifications.
The pattern itself showed a slightly fancy rib, but I found the inside much more interesting. I kept going and finally got to the collar, which I decided to knit directly onto the sewn up jumper. Somewhere in that process I had a brain fade and decided that the inside was the right side and pulled the jumper apart and re-sewed it up again, only to get to the collar again to discover that the old right side was the correct right side!
I did like the new reversed jumper and decided to do the collar correctly to give a nice contrast. Found some wooden buttons in my stash, and, voila....it's finished.
still have to steam the jumper, but as it's 37℃ top today, I'll leave it for another day.
