Ever since I first learned how to knit, I have wanted to make a sweater. I thought that it was an impossible goal for me since I have a hard time completing anything that I start. Yet, it bothered me to think that I couldn’t do something. I felt defeated by a simple sweater! I loved looking at knitting pattern books from the library and found lots of beautiful sweaters, all promising to be easy to make for the beginner.
The fall of 2012, the garden was done and with time on my hands, the knitting bug had bit once again. Our library had a new pattern book in and as usual I borrowed it and LOVED what I found. But this time, I decided that I wanted to actually make a sweater for myself. These patterns seemed very easy for me to read and understand. Our anniversary was November 23 and my parents watched our kids so we could go out on a date. Where did my loving husband take me? To AC Moore where I could look for and buy yarn. After thirty minutes of looking and touch all of the yarns (and trying to be thrifty with what I was buying since I wasn’t sure that I would even finish this project) I decided on some yarn.
I started out fast and furious, but as morning sickness hit in the winter months, the sweater got put off to a corner and I was in just survival mode. Fast forward through the spring and summer and on July 22, 2013 my baby arrived. My health and energy finally returned and with being home so much with a newborn, I now had time to pick up my knitting. I didn’t have large blocks of time to work on it, but I had 15 minutes here and there. Slowly, the sweater began to take shape. Finally, I had all of the pieces completed and it was time to assemble it.
I used the following videos on YouTube to help me:
Even though I LOVED the patterns in the book, there was some simple over sites throughout the pattern that made the project more difficult. My neighbor is an experienced knitter and I frequently had to ask her for help with reading the pattern. For example, when it came to putting on the hood, there was no instructions on how to actually go about that. I used common sense and my gut to assemble it. Also, there were no instructions on making an I-cord for the hood. Again, the picture in the book showed this beautiful completed sweater, but the directions didn’t help with that aspect of the pattern.
The book that I used was “The Yarn Girls Guide To Simple Knits” by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs.
Despite these problems with the pattern, the styles and overall ease for beginners tempts me to begin another project. We will see…….
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