Bog Jacket, continued
I am not what you'd call an experienced sweater-knitter. I've made a few, but nothing I'd wear, embarrassing as that is. So this year I decided, okay, look -- I'm not going to get good at making sweaters unless I make some crappy ones first. And so when I ran into Elizabeth Zimmermann's Bog Jacket sweater, I thought, "Wow, how cool is that? I should make one!" This time, instead of wussing out, I went for it. So here I am, well into the arms:
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Yarn used: The now-discontinued Merino Light in maroon (#8 on the color card), Lion Brand Wool-Ease (worsted and sport-weight doubled) in Black. Needles used: US10.5 -- 6.5mm.
The gist of the sweater is that (shaping aside) you're knitting a square, and where the tan waste yarn is, I'll separate sleeves from body and later weave things together. (I'll take more pictures of the process when I get there.) I did discover that I'm running out of maroon yarn faster than the project is reaching completion, so I've dug some black Wool-Ease out of the stash and started using that as a stripe on the top. Hopefully it'll look good... and I won't run out of that before I'm done. I suppose I could dig out ivory Wool-Ease at that point, but I do hope it won't come to that.
I'm not really a big fan of knitting with Wool-Ease (though I don't mind crocheting with it) due to the high acrylic content. It just hurts my hands to work with it, since there's no give. However, this should flush a bit more of it out of my stash!
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