While Spring has officially started a few days ago, I got the itch to do something with snow at the beginning of March. This paved the way for the Snow Season sweater.
It started a while ago when I’d purchased the yarn for the Pocket Coatigan. I got some more in different colourways; 3 balls of blue and 2 of white. I’d thought about making some sort of dual coloured sweater. The exact plan was not decided. So I went off to scour Ravelry some more. I stumbled across a sweater called Scatter by Þórunn Vilmarsdóttir. While I liked the idea of a gradation in my sweater, I didn’t exactly like the execution. So I continued to search for a raglan base in the correct gauge, which I found in Mud Season by Elizabeth Smith.
The cast on was on March 2 (this is the project description), and this was a very quick knit with size 5.5 mm needles and quite thick yarn. Just below the division for the arms, I started incorporating some white yarn. There was some vague rhyme and reason to the design but the plan was to make it look random. At some point I decided to reverse back to blue and did the whole snow storm again. For the arms, I wanted to end those with the white too, so I snowed the bottom. Once it was finished, I wore it for a day and the sleeves shrunk by at least 5 cm. So I took out the ribbing, added more white and then redid the ribbing. I’d already taken pictures, so just imagine more white at the bottom of the sleeves and it’ll be fine. Funnily enough, the length as I wear it is now exactly the same as in the pictures. It’s just that it doesn’t migrate to above my wrist when worn for some time.
So far it’s nice to wear. I like the little holes and it just makes me happy. Once I finished the original, I cast on the same pattern again. Now in grey. I hope to incorporate some of the changes that came out of the first version and then we’ll see if I can get this one finished in less than two weeks. With the travel time to work reduced to zero, there may be some options..
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