Holey Sweater

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According to a previous post, I frogged the first 40 rows of Holey Sweater in February, but it’s finished at last.

A long cardigan with three blocks of color, lightest at the shoulders, darkest at the bottom. Various types of stitches create a striped effect. The sleeves are tucked into pockets.
The photo looks very gray, but in real life, the yarn is three shades of sage green.

I usually rely on colorful yarn for visual interest, but I switched things up with muted tonal hues and used a variety of stitches for texture.

Closeup of stitches, including diagonal slashes, a row of beads like an abacus, slightly puffed clusters, a few rows of lattice, and large teardrop-shaped holes.

It’s full of mistakes no one will ever know about if I don’t tell them. It falls slightly short of “a wearable I’m completely proud of”—I know about the mistakes—but it’s progress in that direction.

I have more of the same type of yarn for Next Project and have a better idea how it will behave now. On to The Best Time to Wear a Striped Sweater Is All the Time, which will have six colors because a box of colorful yarn is therapeutic.

A ball of purple yarn beside a coil of crochet trim about an inch tall with raised vertical ribbing.
Also extremely poor color representation, but at least it’s in the purple family.

Many of the stitches in Holey Sweater and the ribbing in Striped Sweater’s trim are thanks to extremely detailed text-and-photo tutorials by Nordic Hook.

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