Second Sweater



This is the second sweater I ever made. Ever. This sweater is from the book Sweaters from a New England Village by Candace Strick. It's 100% acryllic yarn that I got at a garage sale for $1 a skein.

This is back when I didn't know any better. I knew how to read a pattern, knit a sweater with a somewhat cabled yoke, but I didn't understand about yarn quality or gauge or anything like that. So I made a neon orange sweater in the medium size, which ended up being a good fit for my (then) size 18 self. I'd bought 7 skeins of the yarn and ended up with a few skeins left over. I don't know where they went, but I also don't miss them.

This sweater was a great learning experience, and it went off to charity. (It's one of my mom's charities - I don't remember the name, but they made sure that it got to someone who needed it and not at goodwill for a dollar) I hope whoever got it enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it. And I hope they can pull off that color of orange!