Riata Pullover (2022)
Pattern: A hodgepodge of ideas…
Yarns:
- Riata by Brooks Farm
Method: Handknit, 4mm needles (3.5mm for collar)
Completed: September 1, 2022.
I started out wanting to make Jared Flood’s “Watermark” sweater with this. Initial swatches suggested it would work, but as I got into it… no. So, I switched to doing “Vivacious Hi Lo” pullover (which has a longer back side than front) but… I kept the broken rib pattern from “Watermark” to break up the pooling in the Riata colourway. And then I ditched the pattern, continued the whole thing (bottom up, in the round) to make a raglan pullover, following numbers from Ann Budd’s book.
In the end… I think my row gauge wasn’t what I thought it was, so the yoke is way deeper than it needs to be. The mohair in the yarn is causing the whole thing to pull longer. It started off too long, and it isn’t getting shorter.
In the warmer months, when I finished it, I was very tempted to rip it all out and do something else with the yarn. I made myself wait until it got cold, to try it then. Indeed, it is a cozy sweater. I little long, and a bit annoying with the armscye drooping, but I think it’s a keeper. I do like how the colours work, with the grid/broken rib patterning.
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