Harvey Knits Ama Sweater 2

I've gone forever without knitting but I've finally finished something! In fact I finished this jumper about a year ago, minus the neckband. It was knitted almost entirely in meetings, but I was struggling to do the picking up while also participating in a conversation - it needed 108 stiches picked up and I just couldn't get anywhere near that. So I bunged it in a bag and ignored it for close to a year. I'm strictly a one Knitting WIP at a time person, and although if bough yarn for another jumper in October, I didn't feel I was 'allowed' start it until I'd finished the other one.

Well, I've finally done it and am firmly back on the knitting train now!

Details of the jumper below:

Pattern: Harvey Knits Ama sweater. It's an old pattern that I made before but there was something funny going on with the drafting in the larger sizes which meant the colour change line cut across the boobs in a way it doesn't in the smaller sizes (see my old blog post here which describes it in a big more detail). I had a few conversations with Maddie the designer but no one else had raised it and she (very understandably) didn't want to prioritise revising an old pattern over publishing new ones. It's not a massively difficult fix - see below

Size: L

Yarn: Malabrigo Arroyo in the Sunset (orange) and Diana (red) colourways, two skeins of each. It's always interesting picking colours in the Malabrigo yarns because they look so different knitted up than unwound. I avoid Ravelry these days, as I am slightly affected by the design accessibility issues (I start feeling woozy after about 15mins)!and I certainly won't be giving them any more money after that debacle, but it is such a good database of seeing particular yarns knit up, and there isn't anywhere else you can search in that way, so I went on to check and those two colours seemed like a good match. The Diana includes a shade of orange that is very similar to the sunset colour.

Adjustments: as I mentioned, the issue with my last version was that the colour change line was too high up so cut across the bottom of my boobs. For this one, I knitted the sleeves first, as I was a bit worried if I did the body first it wouldn't leave me enough of the sunset for the sleeves. That meant cutting the yard for the body so I could do the sleeves first, then picking it up again. Then I just keep knitting with the sunset until I ran out before changing to the Diana. The amazing thing is that now the colour change lines on the sleeves and actually body align, which I would not have been able to do on purpose!