What do you think of ‘Seeds of Change’ as a name for my sweater pattern? I thought it had a nice ring to it firstly, because of the autumn orange colour of my yarn, which makes me think of ‘changing seasons,’ second, because it’s a sort of play on the fact that I’m using a seed stitch border and finally because if it works out well, I hope it’s the first of many patterns to come.
Here’s a pic I took of it in it’s early stages…
I love it so much I can’t stop wanting to work on it! I only stopped last night because my wrist started making that weird clicky sound again, that makes me think it’s either going to snap or solidify so I can never knit again! I consider that reason enough to take a break. 
I have to admit though that it wasn’t all plain sailing from the word go. I cast on and knit about 11 rows before I realised that something was VERY wrong. It seems that when I knit my gauge swatch, I had a different tension to when I was making the actual jumper. I was only about a stitch off (curse those fractions of stitches!) but it was clearly enough to mess up my calculations. Anyway, I re-measured and re-jigged and it seems to working out well now.
I am still a little worried though about whether my waist shaping is going to end up in the right place, haha! According to the schematics it should be ok, but when I hold it up next to me, things seem a little off. I’m hoping that it’s more to do with the fact that it’s on a straight needle, and that the edges keep curling in than because it’s actually wrong.
I’m also not sure what I want to do with the neck. First I was going to go with crew, but then decided that the yarn didn’t really suit that plan, so I agreed on a vee. (Yes I had an extensive debate with myself in my head. No I don’t consider myself nuts. Yet.) Now though, I feel myself leaning towards a slash neck. I kind of don’t want to go with a slash neck, because my books don’t really offer any advice on how to proceed with them, but at the same time, it’s not like there’s much shaping or anything involved with them! I think I just see mself as binding off too early and messing it up. And while many a lesson can be learnt from messing up, I don’t want it to happen this time, the yarn is just too nice.
Anyway, that’s all for now, but I hope to keep updating soon. Thanks for reading!
Tags: jumper, Knitting, seeds of change pattern, sweater
