Look, the Blue Striped Mohair Sweater is finally finished!

Yarn: Fonty Ombelle Mohair in turquoise and light blue
Needles: 8mm (US 11)
Size:  5-6  year old

It lay abandoned for days at end because of the fiddly sewing. If I ever knit another mohair sweater it will be done totally in the round with absolutely NO seams. The seams are actually not pretty, but in the end we really wanted to see it finished, especially Tyra since she designed it and choose the yarn. We went to our LYS Nysta together and had a great time patting different yarns and talking about texture and colours, running to the door with balls of yarn to see how colours change slightly when you view them in natural daylight. It left me with a warm fuzzy feeling seeing Tyra totally engaged in yarn. Her directions to me was pretty clear. She was able to tell me exactly what she expected from the sweater - big and soft, stripes as wide as her thumb, wide arms and a high collar.

I looked quite a bit at two similar sweater patterns from Drops Design while planning Tyras sweater and then heavily modified them to suit Tyras instructions. It was a great learning experience. The importance of calculation cannot be stressed enough and is something I really need to practise. One immensely great thing about knitting is that you always get another chance if you mess it up. A second, a third or a tenth chance if you should need it. All you need is a big helping of patience.

* The post title is from Sufjan Stevens song “The dress looks nice on you”