The Olympic sweater is finally finished!
I ripped out the bottom edging last weekend and reknit it with a larger needle size to eliminate the 80's-esque gathering on the bottom. Then I tackled the collar on Wednesday night and made lots of adjustments to get it to fit my neckline correctly. You can read about my adjustments to the pattern in ravelry if you're interested (craftr's Helleborus Yoke).
I finished up the buttonbands and attached the buttons on Thursday night. The sweater hasn't been blocked yet, but that's not stopping me from wearing it! The cabling pattern is gorgeous and I love the thick and nubbly feeling of the moss stitch throughout the sweater. I was really intrigued with the side to side knitting construction with this pattern and it was fun to try a new construction technique for this.
The Universal Yarn Classic Chunky Tweed yarn was great to work with, but I did find 1 knot in one of the seven balls that I used. It's an acrylic and wool blend that is mostly acrylic, but it has a nice give to it and all of the tweedy chunks give some nice texture to the sweater.
Here are the details:
Pattern: Helleborus Yoke from Knitscene Winter 2010
Yarn: Universal Yarn Classic Chunky Tweed Burgundy, 6.5 balls
Needles: 9 and 10.5
Started February 13 and finished March 11 (with a brief hiatus in between)
Ravelry link: craftr's Helleborus Yoke
PS...yes, these photos are extremely cheesy but they crack Jon up so I'm keeping them :)
beautious! I love the sweater!
And where are these silly (and really cool) pics taken?!
Posted by: Melissa | 16 March 2010 at 11:22 PM
I don't think it's cheesy. Were these shots taken in Canada? Your sweater looks fabulous! Great job on it.
Posted by: Oiyi | 16 March 2010 at 11:32 PM
Ooh that turned out great! I love cables on a sweater. Hooray for perseverance! :)
Posted by: Audrie | 17 March 2010 at 12:17 AM
love the sweater! love the picture too!
Posted by: darlene | 17 March 2010 at 12:37 AM
The sweater is really cute!
Posted by: Dallas | 17 March 2010 at 03:34 AM
Yeah for you - congrats!
Posted by: Amber | 17 March 2010 at 04:47 AM
Your sweater looks great! I'm curious to where you are? You look like you're up pretty high.
Posted by: Stephanie | 17 March 2010 at 07:10 AM
The sweater looks great! And I love sweaters or afghans with tweedy bits. Nice combination of words there. And like Stephanie asked....Where are you?
Posted by: Jodi | 17 March 2010 at 09:38 AM
Well good for you - that turned out beautifully!
Posted by: Allie | 17 March 2010 at 10:43 AM
yay congratulations!
Posted by: montague | 17 March 2010 at 11:02 AM
Beautiful! How nice to have another finished sweater. Love the tweed.
Posted by: Trisha | 17 March 2010 at 07:41 PM
The sweater looks absolutely fantastic! Kudos to you for making the mods necessary for the sweater to work for you. YAY!
Posted by: caitlyn | 17 March 2010 at 11:32 PM
Turned out great!! Hellexciting, not helleboring.
That colour is really nice on you, by the way...
Posted by: CitricSugar | 18 March 2010 at 02:41 AM
love it!
Posted by: melissa | 18 March 2010 at 06:20 PM
your sweater looks great! it looks like all of your reworking paid off. it makes me wish i had that patience for knitting.
Posted by: Nichole | 18 March 2010 at 06:25 PM
wow-- it's wonderful!!
Posted by: cmv | 18 March 2010 at 08:44 PM
fantastic!! well done!
Posted by: rosamaria | 19 March 2010 at 12:27 PM
Looks great on you! and that you can modify a pattern to fit you perfectly...great skill!
Posted by: kristyn | 19 March 2010 at 10:47 PM
I just love this! Absolutely stunning. I'm sorry you had to frog a bit to get it the way you wanted but I'm glad that you are happy with it. Better to fix it and love it than leave it and never wear it, right. One day, I might get up the courage to attempt to make a sweater.
Posted by: cami | 20 March 2010 at 06:32 PM