A bit dramatic but there you go.
I have made my two sons...each!...a jumper!
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| Ben wearing his jumper in Holden racing colours |
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| And Jordan's Jacket in Arty-versus-Incognito colours |
To be honest I had difficulties of different sorts with each of the jumpers, the big difference being Jordan's I fixed and gave to him and it fit great. Ben's, I fixed and gave it to him and found I'd actually made the sleeves that I thought were too long, too short. Spewing!!!
When I picked up the stitches for around the hood and the jacket edging for Jordan's I picked up like twice the number of stitches and desperately tried to convince myself that I hadn't. When it became patently obvious that I was never going to find a zip long enough to sew beside this amazing frill of an edge I finally admitted the bleedingly obvious and regretfully unravelled the whole edge and redid it properly. Which of course turned out excellent!
Ben's sleeves on the other hand were not such a success. So those I'm going to have to remedy for him when he comes to visit soon. I'm sure I have the yarn I took out of the sleeves when I originally thought they were too long...sigh!
The pattern was excellent...until I got to the hood. Neither jumper's hood is anything like functional. Jordan's is closest because I'd already done Ben's and been worried about the slight dimensions of it but even so it could be a lot deeper and as for Ben's it's like a skullcap attached to a flap attached to a jumper! They both look their best when pushed back like an elongated collar!
But fortunately, despite the vagaries of things gone wrong they both like them a lot. Which is sweet of them :)
I'll just be happier when I get to fix Ben's sleeves!
Not that I'm obsessed or anything...
...Keep Knitting!
