Maritime Morning Sweater (2013)

Pattern: My own design

Yarns: Green Mountain Spinnery "Mountain Mohair"
Method: Hand knitting
Completed: February 10, 2013.

I bought the yarn at the Green Mountain Spinnery in 2005. My design notes (from "Design a Knit") are dated 2006. I started knitting immediately on completing the design, and then let the sweater sit in a "time out" for a good long time.

First of all -- I'm pretty happy with the results. It fits well. The yarn is lovely (of course! it's Mountain Mohair!). The wrist band patterning lines up with the waist patterning when I drop my arms.

There are some design "issues" that got on the way of enjoying knitting, causing the multi-year timeouts, and that I'd want to overcome for any future design effort:

lack of contrast (value) between the charcoal main colour and the green and red of the lower design
irregular pattern -- it was hard to "learn" each line of the pattern to knit it correctly -- made the colourwork really a slog to get through

And, executionally,

I need to loosen up in the colour stranded knitting -- you can see the top of the sleeve is narrower than the plain charcoal just below it, for example (giving the sweater the "granny triceps" look).

The overall design theory of "Maritime Morning" was something along the lines of -- rocks on the edge of shore, with seaweed (and flowers?) showing at low tide... somewhere the dark water blurs to the horizon and sky and clouds. Hey -- it's a theory.

	Front view
	Back view
	Detail of shoulder/arm. See that the charcoal plain knit is baggier than the patterning at the top of the sleeve? Gotta loosen up that colourwork stranding.
	Flat view of front

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