The softest and warmest sweater with the very long sleeves

I’ve finished this sweater without trying it on during knitting (bad idea) and never thought about sleeve length + dropped shoulder. You’d think a person who sews would know at least that. Well.

I used 5.5 skeins of Bernat Roving yarn, and made up very simple pattern for the front and back (basically a rectangle with a neckline decrease) and slowly decreasing sleeves. I wanted this to look big and I decided to make it long enough to wear with leggings.

handmade wool sweater unfinished sleeve

Well, it is big. It’s huge. It’s like a sea of soft, warm, fibre. A sea with very long sleeves, that I will have to redo (serenity now!) because I actually want to wear this sweater. And because it was tested (yes with the sub par sleeves) and it’s sooo cozy! 🙂

handmade wool sweater

Instead of sewing the seams I used a crochet but this gave me big, bulky, visible seams, so I will redo that as well.

I didn’t finish the neckline yet.

I didn’t mean to color block it first, but I bought this yarn without knowing very well what I wanted to do with it. I first considered knitting a simple shrug, but I liked the texture of the resulting knitting fabric so much, that I went and bought more. And they were out of my colour of course :((

handmade wool bulky sweater back view

Look how crazy these sleeves are 🙂

handmade wool sweater extra long sleeves

Well, working with this yarn was so pleasant and the fact that I was knitting it while talking over the phone with love ones makes it even more special. Like their goodness is knitted in each loop of the sweater.

Garment notes:

Pattern: self-drafted (it’s really too much to say it’s a pattern. I just knit a 20x 20 swatch to get gauge then used very simple geometry to create this soft monster) – cost 0

Yarn: 36 CAD

Notions: wool needles 2 CAD, I already had the knitting needles.

Total cost: 38 CAD

 

3 thoughts on “The softest and warmest sweater with the very long sleeves”

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  2. I had the same problem (too long sleeves) with my cardigan this week and I found this video by Cheryl Brunette super helpful.
    She talks about how you can shorten or lengthen a knitted piece by taking out rows in the center (rather than reknitting the entire sleeve). She then shows how to invisibly seam the two pieces again. It’s a bit time consuming but much faster than knitting two entire sleeves again.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDyTQo7-bM

    1. THIS IS BRILLIANT! I had no idea you could do this. It just opens a new world of possibilities (and ahem, potential mistakes…)

      I actually just finished re-knitting the sleeves and oh, the saga, now they are too short and too wide :((

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