I offered to test-knit this in November, ordered some delicious worsted-weight yarn from Quince&Co, and cast on in mid-December. This was a straightforward knit, but I had some challenges along the way. I misread the pattern at the start, and had 8 raglan increase stitches (instead of 4). Then, I was almost done the body when I realised I forgot to do the increases at the pockets, and had to frog and re-knit the bottom half. Finally, as I was knitting the hood, I noticed that I was on my last skein of yarn and started to panic that I was going to run out of yarn! I managed to finish the sweater, using approx 900 yds.
I finished this in January, and I wore it a lot when it was cold out (it's a really warm sweater, especially if I wear a long sleeve shirt underneath. My favourite part is probably the pockets. I used some extra yarn I had in my stash (sportweight) and alternated colours every other row. I love how they add a little bit of surprise to a simple-looking sweater.
Now that it's April (and finally starting to warm up) I probably won't be wearing this as often-- I'll just have to knit something else to wear! Thanks for reading!
