Sweater Goodness!

It's with great exuberance and pride that I get to share with you my just yesterday finished object: my very first sweater!!!!!!!


(Perhaps I should remember to pull it down before taking photos shouldn't I?)

The pattern is the "Bardot Sweater" from Debbie Bliss Book Four. The yarn is Debbie Bliss Merino DK in the deep turqoise colourway on US 3 and US 5 circular needles.

I have to say that I am absolutely, positively in love with this sweater. And the chances of that were pretty nil. I have never made a sweater before and have no concept of adjusting shaping. I can barely get a store bought to fit me at the best of time because of my.... um, "unusual size requirements". So what were the chance of my reckless, swatchless sweater fitting? I don't know but I must have some really good knitting karma built up. The colour is also gorgeous and suits me very well. I don't think I could be more happy with a first sweater!

If you're wondering how I got the time to knit a sweater, it was actually knit and seamed all in the two weeks after my summer job ended/before school started. But knitting that much sweater in such a short period of time meant that I was very tired of it by the end and couldn't bring myself to weave in the ends until just recently. And I'm happy I waited because now I have nothing but warm and fuzzy thoughts towards it and they certainly weren't so warm and fuzzy after two weeks of 8 hours of stockinette a day :)

Now to break out my reward yarn, heh heh heh...